02 Mar 2015

Perfecto Mobile Previews Revolutionary Hybrid Cloud Testing Lab Support for Location-based Apps and Internet of Things at Mobile World Congress

BARCELONA, Spain — Perfecto Mobile, the world's leader in mobile app quality, today previews LocalLink, a new extension to its Continuous Quality Lab that addresses location-based quality needs and testing of Internet of Things (IoT), at Mobile World Congress. LocalLink expands test coverage and capabilities, mitigates risks that businesses face in releasing faulty apps, and improves the velocity of the app delivery process to accelerate overall time to market.

Perfecto Mobile's LocalLink connects devices in-hand, to the cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab, allowing organizations to test their apps anywhere they choose while centrally managing all devices, hosted and local, in one integrated environment. LocalLink gives teams the flexibility to add devices to their existing cloud as needed, while still experiencing the benefits of the Continuous Quality Lab. In addition, LocalLink allows for testing IoT, which often requires proximity to the device during operation (due to connecting via Bluetooth or WiFi).

“We are experiencing a revolution in the way companies create engagement through digital experiences for their customers. The need for flexibility in quality labs is critical to ensuring a flawless customer experience with any IoT device or location-based app,” said Roi Carmel, Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy. “We’re excited to be the first to introduce a truly flexible hybrid cloud test lab that addresses location-based use cases and IoT. We are evolving with the mobile device market in order to attain the best test coverage, mitigate risk for our customers and help accelerate the software development lifecycle to meet time-to-market demands.”

In order to manage risks associated with poor app quality, it is important for enterprises to select a testing lab and platform that supports a continuous quality process and can be highly customized to address needs across a variety of use cases. LocalLink can be customized for:

Location-based Testing – In some cases there is a need to have a device at a specific location or in close proximity to the tester to ensure accuracy. This can be a critical requirement as mobile apps can be impacted by network conditions that can only be found on location (stores, banking branches, stadiums, etc.). With LocalLink, users can easily add devices from any location in the world, to the Continuous Quality Lab and run a fully managed and centralized quality process that is remotely accessed and includes all devices across multiple sites.

IoT and Unique Integrations – As the connected enterprise becomes more complex, so does the world of testing. The mobile landscape continues to evolve and grow to include interactions with unique or proprietary devices such as refrigerators, scales, thermometers, wearables, etc. but the overall testing process still needs to be managed holistically and as part of the continuous quality process users have come to expect. LocalLink makes this possible by allowing connectivity between the app and the IoT device to be conducted via Bluetooth or local WiFi.

According to the report titled Predicts 2015: Internet of Things, published December 30, 2014, “Gartner’s assessment of the huge potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) is reflected in its forecast of a cumulative 25 billion things to be shipped by the year 2020, in industries ranging from automotive to food and beverage services. This potential partially obscures IoT contradictions, as it is both emergent and has been around awhile.” The release of LocalLink addresses the unanswered need for quality in such an evolving market.

Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, provides a hybrid cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab that enables mobile app development and testing teams to deliver better apps faster. The Continuous Quality Lab supports testing processes earlier and more often in the development cycle, giving way to faster feedback and improved time to market. Users can access an exhaustive selection of real mobile devices connected to live networks around the world and leverage them for testing and monitoring throughout the mobile application development lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support.

More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto Mobile visit www.perfectomobile.com or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

26 Feb 2015

Facebook's Most-Shared Publisher to Start Paying Its Quiz Makers

PlayBuzz's User-Generated Posts Account for 98% of Its Content

Even if you've never heard of PlayBuzz, you've probably come across its end product. Its platform is behind such Facebook quizzes as "Which Disney Mom Are You?" and lists like "18 Photos That Prove That Online Dating Is Terrifying." The company, thanks to the virality of such content, has become the most-shared publisher on Facebook -- yes, topping even BuzzFeed. And it's done so without paying for most of the content it publishes. That's starting to change.

Commonly called a "BuzzFeed clone," PlayBuzz has parlayed its quizzes and listicles into Facebook popularity. In January people shared more PlayBuzz stories on Facebook than any other publisher, according to social content analytics firm NewsWhip. But PlayBuzz, which launched in January 2014, doesn't consider itself a publisher.

"We're not a publisher in our DNA. We don't have an editorial staff," said PlayBuzz CEO Shaul Olmert, son of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

Mr. Olmert isn't exaggerating much when he says PlayBuzz doesn't have an editorial staff. The 50-person company does have an internal content team of seven employees, but that staff typically handles content moderation and trains publishing and brand partners on how to create content on PlayBuzz.

PlayBuzz's content staff will sometimes publish articles to test new pre-formatted article templates, like one that enables people to create trivia posts, but it only accounts for 2% of the content posted to PlayBuzz, Mr. Olmert said; eight months ago the company said the figure was 10%. PlayBuzz's community of 5,000 creators account for the remaining 98% of its content, using the site's several article templates to create their own quizzes and listicles that are published on PlayBuzz.

As the amount of user-generated content on PlayBuzz has grown, so has its traffic. In January 2015, 14.7 million people in the U.S. visited PlayBuzz's site on their desktop computers, tablets or smartphones, according to comScore. That traffic has grown by 201% since May 2014, the earliest month for which figures were available. PlayBuzz's internal figures claim the site received 80 million unique visitors around the world in January, Mr. Olmert said.

"This is a way for PlayBuzz to hedge their business model," said eMarketer analyst Paul Verna. Like most publishers, PlayBuzz relies on people sharing its articles to Facebook and people clicking on those Facebook links to read the articles on PlayBuzz. But it's just as reliant on people to create those articles. "I think it's part-and-parcel to make the people who contribute invested," he said.

In order to pay these people, ad-supported PlayBuzz will need to improve what it offers advertisers. Right now the site carries so-called "remnant" ads sold through automated ad auctions that typically prize the ad's audience over its surrounding content. This ad-network revenue generates "decent money," Mr. Olmert said, noting that the company is profitable. However it was never PlayBuzz's intended revenue stream and likely couldn't sustain the company's revenue-sharing plans.

"We started as a pure [business-to-business] play. The dream was to be used by thousands of different publishers and make money by charging them for premium services," Mr. Olmert said. The strategy has half-worked. Tens of thousands of publishers including NBC, AOL and Yahoo create content on PlayBuzz or embed the site's stories on their own sites. But those publishers only bring in a minority of PlayBuzz's traffic, he said. People unexpectedly gravitated to the site on their own.

25 Feb 2015

Payoneer’s unique cross-border payments platform continues to attract top industry leaders. In his new role, Platt will oversee top-line business growth at Payoneer.

Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses and professionals send and receive cross-border payments, has appointed Neil Platt, former SVP, Payments at Fiserv and EVP of CashEdge, as Chief Revenue Officer.

Mr. Platt joins Payoneer with an extensive background in payments. In more than 10 years at CashEdge, he grew the company from a pre-revenue startup to an industry leader, serving most of the large banks in the U.S., including seven of the top 10. After Fiserv acquired CashEdge in 2011, Platt stayed on at Fiserv as SVP, Payments, where he led the integration and roll-out of CashEdge products to thousands of Fiserv clients. Earlier in his career, Platt was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.

In his new role at Payoneer, Platt will lead all revenue-generating functions, including sales, marketing, account management, product management and business development. He will be responsible for driving Payoneer’s continued success by developing and implementing new growth strategies and effectively managing the company’s top-line expansion.

“Payoneer is transforming cross-border business payments globally and we were looking for a creative, experienced executive to help us continue our rapid growth,” said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. “We’re very excited to have Neil bring his expertise in managing fast-growing payments companies to Payoneer.”

In 2014 Payoneer was recognized for the third consecutive year by the Deloitte Fast 500 for 762% growth over the past five years, as well as ranked in the top 100 financial services companies for the second year in a row by the Inc. 5000.

“Having spent close to 20 years in the financial technology industry, I’ve witnessed several generations of payments innovation as the business has moved online,” said Platt. “Payoneer has proven to be a leader in cross-border payments innovation, and the company’s immense growth mirrors that. I’m thrilled to join the team to help them drive continued growth and manage their ongoing success.”

To learn more about how Payoneer is empowering global commerce with cross-border payment services, visit the Payoneer website.

About Payoneer Payoneer empowers global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies with its innovative cross-border payments platform. In today’s borderless digital world, Payoneer enables millions of businesses and professionals from more than 200 countries to reach new audiences by facilitating seamless, cross-border payments. Additionally, thousands of leading corporations including Google, Airbnb, Elance-oDesk and Getty Images rely on Payoneer’s mass payout services.

With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally. Founded in 2005 and based in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000’s Financial Services companies. For more information, visit us at http://www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

01 Mar 2015

Our People

Shlomo Dovrat | Co-Founder and General Partner

Shlomo is a co-founder of the Viola Group, and a co-founder of Carmel Ventures. He serves as a General Partner at Carmel and his investment interests include Mobile, Software, Digital Media and Internet.Shlomo served as Chairman for ECI Telecom and led ECI's strategic turnaround from 2002-2007, leading to its acquisition for $1.25 billion. Shlomo also served as a board member of Wanova that was acquired by VMware in May 2012, and as chairman of
the board of Red Bend that was acquired by Harman in January 2015. Currently he serves on the board of directors of ironSource, Outbrain, eXelate and cVidya.Shlomo began his career as a hi-tech entrepreneur, eventually becoming CEO and Chairman of several leading high-tech companies including Oshap that was acquired by SunGard $220M and Tecnomatix, where he served as CEO and President from its inception and led its IPO on NASDAQ. Later he served as Chairman until the company was acquired by UGS for approximately $220M. In addition to his highly successful business career, Shlomo is actively involved in numerous educational and community outreach programs.

Shlomo DovratCo-Founder and General Partner

Avi Zeevi | Co-Founder and General Partner

Avi is a co-founder of the Viola Group, and a co-founder of Carmel Ventures. He serves as a General Partner at Carmel and he leads Carmel’s FinTech practice. His investment interests include Software, Financial Services and Big Data.Avi was the first VC investor in Actimize, where he served as an active Chairman from 2001 and until it was sold to NICE Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE), in August 2007, for $280 million. Avi currently serves on the Board of Directors of Payoneer, YCD, Clarizen, SundaySky, Personetics and TradAir.Avi serves as the Chairman of the VC Committee at the Israel Advanced Technologies Industries Association (IATI). Avi is a lecturer at the Kellogg Recanati International Executive MBA Program where he teaches the “VC –What’s it all about” course.Avi began his career as a hi-tech entrepreneur and was a co-founder and CEO of MINT Technologies. After merging Mint into Oshap, he served as the CFO of Oshap that was acquired by SunGard for $220M. Avi is involved in several educational non for profit organizations.

Avi ZeeviCo-Founder and General Partner

Ori Bendori | General Partner

Ori Bendori joined Carmel Ventures in October 2004 as a General Partner, with over 25 years of management leadership in the Hi-Tech industry. He is focusing primarily on investments in the areas of Communications, Infrastructure, Semiconductors and Energy. Ori served as a board member of CopperGate that was acquired by Sigma Designs for $180M in 2009. He was also the first investor and board member of DesignArt Networks that was acquired by Qualcomm in 2012. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Optimal Plus, Reduxio, LiveU, Adapteva and Multiphy. Prior to joining Carmel Ori served as a VP & General Manager of the Enterprise Internetworking Systems Division at Avaya. Prior to this role he served as VP & General Manager of the LAN Systems Group at Lucent and before that as CTO of Lannet. He began his career in the Israeli Aircraft Industries. Ori holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics & Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, Israel.Ori served as a Major and Fighter Pilot in the Israeli Air Force for 19 years.

Ori BendoriGeneral Partner

Ronen Nir | General Partner

Ronen Joined Carmel Ventures in February 2008 and currently serves as a General Partner. Ronen investment areas focus on SaaS, big data, cyber security and internet and he is currently a board member in Real Match, Samanage, ironSource, Perfecto Mobile, Kampyle and Redis Labs. Before joining Carmel, Ronen held senior executive positions in several leading Hi-Tech companies, including a VP Product in Verint Systems' ACS division; and a Project Team Manager in ECtel Ltd (NASDAQ:ECTX), in charge of delivering large scale, multi million dollars projects to North and Latin America regions.Ronen served 13 years in an elite Israeli Defense Forces' Intelligence Unit where he holds a rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.). He holds a B.A. (Com Laude) in Economics and Middle-East history from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and an M.Sc in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC).

Ronen NirGeneral Partner

Daniel Cohen | General Partner

Daniel Cohen joined Carmel Ventures in mid-2013 as a General Partner, with more than 11 years of VC experience. Daniel investment interests include digital media and consumer internet. He currently serves on the board of Tapingo, LuckyFish and PlayBuzz.Prior to joining Carmel, Daniel served as a General Partner in Gemini Israel Ventures from 2006 to 2012 and before that as a principal since 2001. In Gemini Daniel led investments and served as a board member in Adap.tv (acquired by AOL in 2013 for $405M), Outbrain, SupportSpace, Massive Impact, Watchdox, Eyeview and FTBPro. Daniel also managed Gemini’s Silicon Valley office in the years 2006-2009.Daniel is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program and He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology from Tel Aviv University an MBA from INSEAD.

Daniel CohenGeneral Partner

Rina Shainski | General Partner

Rina Shainski joined Carmel in 2000 as a General Partner, with vast experience in the Hi-Tech industry . Rina’s investment interests include mobility, digital media and internet. Rina led a number of investments in mobile applications and services pioneers, such as Followap that was acquired by Neustar, in 2006, and Snaptu that was acquired by Facebook in 2011. She also served on the board of Kontera that was acquired by SingTel in 2014. Rina serves on the board of directors of Skybox, Perfecto Mobile, myThings and Tonara. Before joining Carmel Rina served as VP Business Development, responsible for IT investments, at Clal Industries and Investments, where she led the investment in Fundtech (NASDAQ:FNDT) that was acquired by GTCR in December 2011 for approximately $390M. Prior to that Rina held executive management positions in R&D and Business Development positions in Tecnomatix, and served in R&D management positions in high growth companies in the Silicon Valley. Rina holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Weizmann Institute, Israel, a B.Sc in Physics from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Rina ShainskiGeneral Partner

Itzik Avidor | Partner and CFO

Itzik Avidor is the Viola Group’s CFO and a Partner at Carmel Ventures. Prior joining the Viola Group in 2000, Itzik was a Senior Audit Manager at Brightman Almagor & Co., a member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (1993-2000), specializing in auditing high-tech companies traded on NASDAQ. Itzik participated in all stages of the registration of shares of Israeli companies on NASDAQ, and has extensive experience performing due diligence, financial statement analysis, and taxation of high-tech companies. Itzik holds both an BA in Accounting and Economics with distinction and an MBA in Accounting and Marketing with distinction from the Tel Aviv University

Itzik AvidorPartner and CFO

Ronit Amiaz | VP Human Resources

Ronit joined Carmel in 2004 from TTI Telecom (NASDAQ:TTIL), a leading communications software provider, where she served as VP, Human Resources. At Carmel, Ronit assists in both team evaluations during the due diligence process and in recruitment of management for portfolio companies post-investment. Ronit works closely with the CEOs on organization building and structure, and provides advice on bridging geographical and cultural gaps to create truly unified global organizations. Ronit also coordinates Carmel’s HR Forum, comprised of Carmel portfolio company HR Directors who gather on a quarterly basis for professional enrichment. Prior to TTI, Ronit managed the High-Tech Consulting Practice group of Ofer Ariely, a leading Israeli high-tech organizational consulting firm. Ronit holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.Sc. in Organizational Behavior from Tel Aviv University.

Ronit AmiazVP Human Resources

Maya Pizov | Principal

Maya Pizov joined Carmel in August 2012 and has over 7 years of experience in product management, program and account management from leading tech firms and the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Before her MBA, Maya was a Program Manager and Account Manager at eBay, as part of its Israeli Development Center. She also held the position of Product Manager at Shopping.com, an eBay company, focusing on building structured data systems. Before joining eBay, Maya was an Application Consultant at Oracle, working with the company’s clients to implement ERP and CRM systems. Maya served as Lieutenant in an Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Unit. She holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (majors in Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Marketing).

Maya PizovPrincipal

Debbie Levi | Principal

Debbie Levi joined Carmel in June 2011 and has over 10 years of experience in marketing, business development, and sales in both start-up and corporate environments in the US and in Israel.Before joining Carmel, Debbie served as Marketing Director at Mytopia (acquired by 888 Holdings), a social gaming studio where she was part of the management team and responsible for marketing strategy, business development and monetization. Prior to this, as Head of Marketing at mySupermarket, an online grocery shopping and price comparison website, Debbie managed the marketing team and strategy and was responsible for traffic acquisition, growth and data analysis. Prior to mySupermarket, Debbie was Senior Account Manager/Affiliate Program Manager, Marketing at Kasamba (acquired by LivePerson), a live expert advice website. Before moving to Israel, Debbie served as Account Manager at News America Marketing (a division of News Corp), a consumer packaged goods marketing services company, and held marketing internships at companies such as America Online. Debbie holds a B.A in Communications and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MBA from Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Debbie LeviPrincipal

Hila Shitrit Nissim | Marketing Director

Hila Shitrit Nissim joined Carmel in 2005 as a marketing director and since 2012 she is in charge of Viola Group’s marketing activities. She is responsible for Viola’s branding, marketing strategy and implementation. This includes events, sponsorships, speaking engagements, public relations and social media. Hila provides assistance to Viola Group’s portfolio companies with marketing related issues, press releases, and branding. Before joining Carmel, Hila spent five years as Project Manager and Team Leader at a leading Israeli conference organizer in charge of organizing local and international conferences for The Israel Venture Association. Prior to this, Hila served as Officer in the IDF Spokesperson Unit, in charge of the IDF’s public relations activities.

Hila holds a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University (dual major in Marketing and Strategy).

Hila Shitrit NissimMarketing Director

Michal Cohen | VP Legal Affairs & General Counsel

Michal Cohen joined Carmel in 2007 and has over 15 years of experience in practicing law. At Carmel, Michal is responsible for all legal aspects of Carmel investments and exit processes, as well as Fund-related legal issues. With extensive experience in venture capital investments, Michal works closely with Carmel’s portfolio companies from the early stages of initial investment through mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. Before joining Carmel, Michal was an Associate at the New York law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, specializing in securities and M&A transactions. She represented U.S. corporations in various types of securities offerings, including initial public offerings on the New York Stock Exchange, and M&A transactions. Prior to this, Michal served as General Counsel for Dingo Ltd., an Israeli company in the international textile industry. Before joining Dingo, Michal practiced law with Melcer & Co. Michal holds a B.A. in Law from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an Executive MBA from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is licensed by both the Israeli and New York Bars.

Michal CohenVP Legal Affairs & General Counsel

Ofer Brandes | CTO

With over 35 years of experience in software engineering, Ofer Brandes has a strong background in technology. Ofer has worked with Carmel’s founding Partners in various capacities for the past 15 years, and joined Carmel as CTO in 2003. As a part-time technology consultant, Ofer is involved in the technological evaluation aspects of the due diligence process, and works with CTOs and R&D managers of portfolio companies post-investment. Ofer also serves as the CEO of Tersus, a Visual Programming Platform for creating rich web and mobile applications. Prior to joining Carmel, Ofer was the CTO at SunGard Business Integration (“SBI”, formerly MINT). Prior to SBI, Ofer was the Chief Designer and Programmer at Tovna, an Israeli company which developed software for automatic translation between English, French and Russian. From 1993 through 1996, Ofer was Senior Advisor to Israel’s Minister of Education. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ prestigious Intelligence Corps and holds a B.Sc. (with distinction) in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ofer BrandesCTO

Noya Lizor | Director of Content

Noya Lizor joined Viola Group in 2014 as Director of Content and is responsible for Viola Group’s content marketing activities. As her first order of business Noya has overseen the creation of Viola Notes (our blog) which will tap into the unique expertise of Viola Group’s Partners, members of our portfolio companies and other industry experts in order to provide useful and interesting insights for Israeli entrepreneurs and the start-up world in general.Noya returned to Israel in 2008 after over 20 years in Australia. Her career in Sydney spanned several industries including advertising and publishing and she has vast experience in a variety of online marketing disciplines including email marketing, customer retention and content strategy. In her last role before moving to Israel Noya worked at McCann Worldgroup in Sydney where in addition to being a copywriter she also managed the agency’s email marketing program, namely for their largest client Microsoft Australia.Since 2008 Noya has worked in Israel’s vibrant startup scene in several senior marketing roles. She has a soft spot for Email and also runs her own blog (TheBestOfEmail.com).

Noya holds a B.A. Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Email: noyal@viola-group.com

Noya LizorDirector of Content

About

Carmel Ventures is a venture capital firm, empowering
early stage start-ups to become category leaders

Founded in 2000, Carmel Ventures is managing over $800M across four funds. As Israel’s top tier VC firm, we invest in Israeli or
Israeli related early stage companies and build global category leaders. Carmel
invests across a number of key market segments including: software, new
enterprise infrastructure, big data, digital media, consumer applications and
semiconductors.

Our
team approaches the investment as a proactive, hands-on endeavor. Carmel
Ventures typically leads or co-leads investments and take an active role on the
Board of Directors while keeping a low ratio of companies per partner. With
strong M&A and IPO experience, the Carmel team has backed a disproportional
share of Israel’s category leaders that generate over $50M in annual revenues,
including: Outbrain, ironSource, Payoneer, and more.

Advisory Board

Craig Ehrlich | Former Chairman of GSMA

Craig Ehrlich is a private
investor in numerous companies across Asia including Philippines, India, Hong
Kong, China and Taiwan.
Craig is affiliated with Bharti
Airtel, the world’s 4th largest telecom company, as independent
non-executive director of the company.
In the Philippines, Craig is Vice
Chairman of publicly listed ISM and a former board member of several listed
companies in that country. He was also Chairman of Taiwan’s largest cable
television company, KBRO. The company was primarily owned by the Carlyle Group.
Craig is also Chairman of Novare Technologies Ltd. It’s a global provider of
technology services to Banking, Telecommunications and Retail companies.
Craig Ehrlich is the former long
time Chairman of GSMA, the global trade association having sewed from
2002-2008.
He was formerly a board member of
ECI (NASDAQ) Hutchison Telecom Group, Roamware and ITU Telecom.
Craig is also a member of
UCLA/Peking University Joint Research Institute Advisory Committee and a
founding Chairman of the Centre for Global Management at the UCLA Anderson
School.
Craig holds a B.A. degree from
the University of California Los Angeles, a Masters degree from Occidental
College and a postgraduate fellowship with the Coro Foundation.
He has resided in Hong Kong for
25 years.

Craig EhrlichFormer Chairman of GSMA

Martin Nisenholtz | Former SVP of Digital Operations of The New York Times

Martin Nisenholtz retired from The New York Times Company in January 2012 after almost 17 years with the organization. In February 2005, Mr. Nisenholtz was named corporate senior vice president, digital operations for The New York Times Company, responsible for the strategy development, operations and management of The New York Times Company’s digital properties.Mr. Nisenholtz was chief executive officer of New York Times Digital from 1999 to 2005. Previously, he was president of The New York Times Electronic Media Company from 1995 to 1999. In that role, he was the founding leader at NYTimes.com.Prior to joining the Times Company, Mr. Nisenholtz was director of content strategy for Ameritech Corporation, where he was responsible for guiding development of new video programming opportunities and interactive information and advertising services. From 1983 to 1994, Mr. Nisenholtz worked at The Ogilvy Group, where he was a senior VP and member of the operating committee at Ogilvy & Mather Direct. In 1983 he founded the Interactive Marketing Group (IMG), the first full service unit at a major U.S. advertising agency devoted specifically to interactive communication.Mr. Nisenholtz is an active leader in the advertising and publishing industry and participates in the following organizations:

Mr. Nisenholtz is a Director of Yellow Media Inc., a publicly traded Canadian company. He also serves on the board of Exelate, a privately hold data and analytics company based in New York.Mr. Nisenholtz received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication.

Martin NisenholtzFormer SVP of Digital Operations of The New York Times

Niel Ransom | CEO Ransomshire Associates

With over 35 years of leadership in the telecommunications
industry, Dr. Niel Ransom is President and CEO of Ransomshire Associates, Inc.,
a consultancy he founded in 2005, where he provides corporate strategy
development and investment due diligence. As worldwide CTO of Alcatel and
member of its Executive Committee, he directed a staff of 1200 comprising Alcatel’s
research, corporate strategy, intellectual property, and R&D investment
organizations. M&A activities included the acquisition of TiMetra, Spatial
Communications, eDial, PacketVideo, Thirdspace, iMagicTV, Right Vision, Telera,
Aravox, WaterCove, and Native Networks. Previously,
he was general manager of Alcatel’s access and metro optical business in North
America. Before joining Alcatel, he directed the Advanced Technology Systems Center
at BellSouth, an organization that spearheaded BellSouth’s expansion into PCS
wireless, IP data services, video entertainment, and advanced intelligent
networks. He started his career at Bell Laboratories where he headed various development
and applied research organizations in advanced services and in voice, video,
and data communications.
He currently serves on the boards of directors of RadiSys
(NASDAX: RSYS), Cyan Inc. (NYSE: CTNI), MultiPhy, and Polatis. In addition, he
serves on the advisory boards of several technology startups.
Previously, he served on the boards of directors of AppliedMicro
(NASDAX: AMCC), kbro (the leading CATV operator in Taiwan acquired by Fubon
Financial Holding), CoreOptics (acquired by Cisco Systems), DesignArt Networks
(acquired by Qualcomm), ECI Telecom (acquired by the Swarth Group), Ellacoya
Networks (acquired by Arbor Networks), Overture Networks, Teknovus (acquired by
Broadcom), and Turin Networks (merged with Force10 and acquired by Dell).
In 2000, Dr. Ransom was appointed a member of the
Technological Advisors Council of the U.S. Federal Communication Commission. He
holds five patents in telecommunications technology and is co-author of the
book, Broadband Access Technologies, published by McGraw-Hill.
He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and BSEE and MSEE degrees
from Old Dominion University.

Niel RansomCEO Ransomshire Associates

David Rosenblatt | Former President of Global Display Ads at Google; Former CEO of DoubleClick

As CEO of 1stdibs, David
Rosenblatt spends his time thinking about how to create the preeminent digital
platform for the luxury market.
Prior to his position
at 1stdibs, David served as CEO of DoubleClick — the leading provider of
online marketing technology and services — from 2004 until 2008, where he
helped contribute to the digital migration of the advertising industry.
David sold the company to Google
in 2008 for $3.2 billion. Following the acquisition, he stayed on as Google's
President of Global Display Advertising through 2009.
David serves on the boards of
Twitter, IAC and Narrative Science, in addition to 1stdibs.

David RosenblattFormer President of Global Display Ads at Google; Former CEO of DoubleClick

David Sable | Global CEO Y&R

David Sable became Global CEO of Y&R in February 2011,
but Y&R has long been in his blood. He joined the Y&R training program
in 1976, and he credits this induction into the business as the foundation for
much of what he has done in his life.
Having
gone on to work at Wells Rich Greene, and Miller Advertising, David later rejoined
the Y&R family; working for both Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe, and
counseling great clients like Colgate-Palmolive, Digital Equipment Corporation
and Coca-Cola.
He
returned to Y&R Advertising in 1990 to lead the global portion of
Colgate-Palmolive and help win the United States Postal Service consolidated
account, before becoming Vice Chairman and COO of Wunderman – transforming the
agency into one of the world’s leading digital networks.
Y&R is eminently positioned as storyteller and
innovator, and David sees the greatest competitive differentiator to be the
agency’s ability to create a complete experience for consumers that bridge the
detail and physical worlds.
A strong thought leader; David has been blogging since
2006, with his Weekly
Ramble. He frequently writes for The Huffington Post, is
a Linkedin
Influencer, and has been featured in many publications including Google
Think Insights, Fast
Company, Advertising Age, Adweek, Forbes, Yahoo! and
Microsoft
Advertising.
Active in the industry; David is Director-at-Large of the
American Association of Advertising Agencies (the 4As) and was a founding
member of its Digital Advisory Board. He is also a director of the Advertising
Council and has served on a wide range of juries — his favorite in recent years
being the Titanium panel at Cannes.
David is Chair of UNICEF’s New York Philanthropic
Advisory Board. David also serves on a number of other charitable boards
including the UNCF, the New Yorkers Volunteer State Office of National and
Community Service Commission, and the Cultural Advisory Committee of the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs. He was just named by Fast Company as one of the 10
Most Generous People in Marketing and Advertising.
He lives in New York with his wife, Debbie, and has two
daughters and three treasured grandchildren – Henry, Teddy and Gemma.

David SableGlobal CEO Y&R

Eyal Waldman | Chairman, President and CEO of Mellanox

Eyal Waldman was born
in Jerusalem. He served as an officer in one of the Elite infantry units of the
IDF, and graduated from the Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology, with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Computer
Science faculty and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. Eyal worked for Intel
for three and a half years where he received the Intel Achievement Award in
1991 and the employee of the year award in 1992. Mr. Waldman is one of the
co-founders of Galileo Technologies in 1993, a fabless semiconductor company
that went public on NASDAQ in 1997 for approximately $250M and was later sold
to Marvell for $2.7B in 2000. Mr. Waldman left Galileo Technologies in 1999 to
start Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet
interconnect solutions and services for server and storage systems. Mellanox went public in 2007 at a market cap
of approximately $550M. Today, (July 2013) Mellanox’s market cap is
approximately $1.95B.
Mr. Waldman is
recognized as a key player in the success of Mellanox. He believes that
technical, financial, and quality milestones can be achieved with the right
mindset and teamwork. Under Waldman's expert guidance, Mellanox has established
a sound reputation as a leader in the data center interconnect market.
His initiatives and
management style have led Mellanox to build the world’s fastest interconnect
solutions that are consistently generations ahead of all competitors. These
products have changed the way companies build their compute and storage data
centers to be more efficient and environmentally friendly. Mellanox’s solutions
have led to further research and science discoveries that were impossible with
other technologies as well as increased product development and time-to-market
for FORTUNE 500 companies.

Latest News

BARCELONA, Spain — Perfecto Mobile, the world's leader in mobile app quality, today previews LocalLink, a new extension to its Continuous Quality Lab that addresses location-based quality needs and testing of Internet of Things (IoT), at Mobile World Congress. LocalLink expands test coverage and capabilities, mitigates risks that businesses face in releasing faulty apps, and improves the velocity of the app delivery process to accelerate overall time to market.

Perfecto Mobile's LocalLink connects devices in-hand, to the cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab, allowing organizations to test their apps anywhere they choose while centrally managing all devices, hosted and local, in one integrated environment. LocalLink gives teams the flexibility to add devices to their existing cloud as needed, while still experiencing the benefits of the Continuous Quality Lab. In addition, LocalLink allows for testing IoT, which often requires proximity to the device during operation (due to connecting via Bluetooth or WiFi).

“We are experiencing a revolution in the way companies create engagement through digital experiences for their customers. The need for flexibility in quality labs is critical to ensuring a flawless customer experience with any IoT device or location-based app,” said Roi Carmel, Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy. “We’re excited to be the first to introduce a truly flexible hybrid cloud test lab that addresses location-based use cases and IoT. We are evolving with the mobile device market in order to attain the best test coverage, mitigate risk for our customers and help accelerate the software development lifecycle to meet time-to-market demands.”

In order to manage risks associated with poor app quality, it is important for enterprises to select a testing lab and platform that supports a continuous quality process and can be highly customized to address needs across a variety of use cases. LocalLink can be customized for:

Location-based Testing – In some cases there is a need to have a device at a specific location or in close proximity to the tester to ensure accuracy. This can be a critical requirement as mobile apps can be impacted by network conditions that can only be found on location (stores, banking branches, stadiums, etc.). With LocalLink, users can easily add devices from any location in the world, to the Continuous Quality Lab and run a fully managed and centralized quality process that is remotely accessed and includes all devices across multiple sites.

IoT and Unique Integrations – As the connected enterprise becomes more complex, so does the world of testing. The mobile landscape continues to evolve and grow to include interactions with unique or proprietary devices such as refrigerators, scales, thermometers, wearables, etc. but the overall testing process still needs to be managed holistically and as part of the continuous quality process users have come to expect. LocalLink makes this possible by allowing connectivity between the app and the IoT device to be conducted via Bluetooth or local WiFi.

According to the report titled Predicts 2015: Internet of Things, published December 30, 2014, “Gartner’s assessment of the huge potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) is reflected in its forecast of a cumulative 25 billion things to be shipped by the year 2020, in industries ranging from automotive to food and beverage services. This potential partially obscures IoT contradictions, as it is both emergent and has been around awhile.” The release of LocalLink addresses the unanswered need for quality in such an evolving market.

Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, provides a hybrid cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab that enables mobile app development and testing teams to deliver better apps faster. The Continuous Quality Lab supports testing processes earlier and more often in the development cycle, giving way to faster feedback and improved time to market. Users can access an exhaustive selection of real mobile devices connected to live networks around the world and leverage them for testing and monitoring throughout the mobile application development lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support.

More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto Mobile visit www.perfectomobile.com or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

PlayBuzz's User-Generated Posts Account for 98% of Its Content

Even if you've never heard of PlayBuzz, you've probably come across its end product. Its platform is behind such Facebook quizzes as "Which Disney Mom Are You?" and lists like "18 Photos That Prove That Online Dating Is Terrifying." The company, thanks to the virality of such content, has become the most-shared publisher on Facebook -- yes, topping even BuzzFeed. And it's done so without paying for most of the content it publishes. That's starting to change.

Commonly called a "BuzzFeed clone," PlayBuzz has parlayed its quizzes and listicles into Facebook popularity. In January people shared more PlayBuzz stories on Facebook than any other publisher, according to social content analytics firm NewsWhip. But PlayBuzz, which launched in January 2014, doesn't consider itself a publisher.

"We're not a publisher in our DNA. We don't have an editorial staff," said PlayBuzz CEO Shaul Olmert, son of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

Mr. Olmert isn't exaggerating much when he says PlayBuzz doesn't have an editorial staff. The 50-person company does have an internal content team of seven employees, but that staff typically handles content moderation and trains publishing and brand partners on how to create content on PlayBuzz.

PlayBuzz's content staff will sometimes publish articles to test new pre-formatted article templates, like one that enables people to create trivia posts, but it only accounts for 2% of the content posted to PlayBuzz, Mr. Olmert said; eight months ago the company said the figure was 10%. PlayBuzz's community of 5,000 creators account for the remaining 98% of its content, using the site's several article templates to create their own quizzes and listicles that are published on PlayBuzz.

As the amount of user-generated content on PlayBuzz has grown, so has its traffic. In January 2015, 14.7 million people in the U.S. visited PlayBuzz's site on their desktop computers, tablets or smartphones, according to comScore. That traffic has grown by 201% since May 2014, the earliest month for which figures were available. PlayBuzz's internal figures claim the site received 80 million unique visitors around the world in January, Mr. Olmert said.

"This is a way for PlayBuzz to hedge their business model," said eMarketer analyst Paul Verna. Like most publishers, PlayBuzz relies on people sharing its articles to Facebook and people clicking on those Facebook links to read the articles on PlayBuzz. But it's just as reliant on people to create those articles. "I think it's part-and-parcel to make the people who contribute invested," he said.

In order to pay these people, ad-supported PlayBuzz will need to improve what it offers advertisers. Right now the site carries so-called "remnant" ads sold through automated ad auctions that typically prize the ad's audience over its surrounding content. This ad-network revenue generates "decent money," Mr. Olmert said, noting that the company is profitable. However it was never PlayBuzz's intended revenue stream and likely couldn't sustain the company's revenue-sharing plans.

"We started as a pure [business-to-business] play. The dream was to be used by thousands of different publishers and make money by charging them for premium services," Mr. Olmert said. The strategy has half-worked. Tens of thousands of publishers including NBC, AOL and Yahoo create content on PlayBuzz or embed the site's stories on their own sites. But those publishers only bring in a minority of PlayBuzz's traffic, he said. People unexpectedly gravitated to the site on their own.

Payoneer’s unique cross-border payments platform continues to attract top industry leaders. In his new role, Platt will oversee top-line business growth at Payoneer.

Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses and professionals send and receive cross-border payments, has appointed Neil Platt, former SVP, Payments at Fiserv and EVP of CashEdge, as Chief Revenue Officer.

Mr. Platt joins Payoneer with an extensive background in payments. In more than 10 years at CashEdge, he grew the company from a pre-revenue startup to an industry leader, serving most of the large banks in the U.S., including seven of the top 10. After Fiserv acquired CashEdge in 2011, Platt stayed on at Fiserv as SVP, Payments, where he led the integration and roll-out of CashEdge products to thousands of Fiserv clients. Earlier in his career, Platt was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.

In his new role at Payoneer, Platt will lead all revenue-generating functions, including sales, marketing, account management, product management and business development. He will be responsible for driving Payoneer’s continued success by developing and implementing new growth strategies and effectively managing the company’s top-line expansion.

“Payoneer is transforming cross-border business payments globally and we were looking for a creative, experienced executive to help us continue our rapid growth,” said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. “We’re very excited to have Neil bring his expertise in managing fast-growing payments companies to Payoneer.”

In 2014 Payoneer was recognized for the third consecutive year by the Deloitte Fast 500 for 762% growth over the past five years, as well as ranked in the top 100 financial services companies for the second year in a row by the Inc. 5000.

“Having spent close to 20 years in the financial technology industry, I’ve witnessed several generations of payments innovation as the business has moved online,” said Platt. “Payoneer has proven to be a leader in cross-border payments innovation, and the company’s immense growth mirrors that. I’m thrilled to join the team to help them drive continued growth and manage their ongoing success.”

To learn more about how Payoneer is empowering global commerce with cross-border payment services, visit the Payoneer website.

About Payoneer Payoneer empowers global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies with its innovative cross-border payments platform. In today’s borderless digital world, Payoneer enables millions of businesses and professionals from more than 200 countries to reach new audiences by facilitating seamless, cross-border payments. Additionally, thousands of leading corporations including Google, Airbnb, Elance-oDesk and Getty Images rely on Payoneer’s mass payout services.

With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally. Founded in 2005 and based in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000’s Financial Services companies. For more information, visit us at http://www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Leading provider of cloud-based IT service management software honored as one of the top private companies in the cloud marketplace.

The private companies on the sixth annual AlwaysOn OnCloud 50 Companies to Watch (formerly OnDemand 50 Companies to Watch) are recognized for the creative and innovative ways they are bringing cloud technology into businesses around the world.

“We are honored to be recognized among the innovative companies on the OnCloud 50 Companies to Watch,” said Doron Gordon, CEO, Samanage. “As one of the top companies shaking up the cloud-based software space, we continue to build momentum and deliver enterprise service management software that quickly drives value by connecting people with the key business services they use every day.”

Samanage was selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. The companies making the list were selected by a panel of investors, bankers, journalists and industry experts around the globe.

This recognition builds on other recent accolades from AlwaysOn. In 2014, Samanage was named as an AlwaysOn Global 250 winner, and recognized as one of the OnDemand 2014 Top 100 Companies to Watch.

The AlwaysOn Top Companies Showcase will be held February 26, 2015 in San Mateo, CA.

About Samanage Samanage is enterprise service desk software that manages service relationships in the company and helps get work done. Samanage delivers an exceptional user experience with beautiful software that people love to use. Instantly deployed and continuously updated in the cloud, Samanage service and asset management software lets you quickly drive business value by connecting your people with the key business services they use every day.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced record-setting growth during the fourth quarter of 2014. The company delivered on its enterprise enablement vision and "white glove customer experience" focus with significant growth numbers, customer wins and employee additions.

Clarizen accelerated its expansion in the enterprise, reporting its largest revenue quarter in company history. The company has doubled the number of enterprise customers with more than $100,000 annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2014, and services revenue also doubled year-over-year. Clarizen also expanded its customer support focus, now with support teams in three locations worldwide. As a result, the company has improved customer response times by more than 300 percent.

"Clarizen's commitment to fulfilling its 'enterprise enablement' vision paid off during the fourth quarter. We deliver enterprise-grade technology to enable organic innovation in the modern workplace through transparency and collaboration," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO, Clarizen. "As the numbers show, our customers are embracing Clarizen as the preferred work collaboration platform for the enterprise."

Additional Company-Related Highlights:

In 2014, Clarizen increased its total employee count by more than 54 percent, with a focus on customer services and R&D. As a part of that increase, the company welcomed US executive team members Chris Bates, Global VP of Customer Success; Viken Eldemir, VP of Americas; and Anne Catambay, VP of Demand Generation.

In Q4, the company signed 151 new customers including one of the world's largest online retailers, one of the top five banks in America and a multinational supply chain and logistics company.

Clarizen also introduced its Fall Release, which delivers new customization, configuration, visualization and digital proofing enhancements, as well as an updated integration with Box.

Clarizen CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski was named an "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Business Intelligence Group and recognized for his innovative work redefining collaboration in the real-time, multi-generational and ever-changing modern workplace.

Clarizen was ranked the 68th fastest-growing company in the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for EMEA, reporting an impressive growth rate of 2196 percent between 2009 and 2013.

About ClarizenClarizen is a work collaboration platform that helps companies get work done faster. The company's enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,300 organizations across 76 countries, including dozens of the Fortune 500. Most recently, Gigaom Research rated Clarizen at the top in its Sector RoadMap: process-based collaboration in 2014 report. Founded in 2006, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel and London, UK. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.

Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, today announced that 2014 was the best year since the Company’s inception. The company experienced a 100 percent increase in annual revenue and doubled its customer base over 2013. Perfecto Mobile executives attributed the company’s continued growth to the criticality of mobile apps, as well as the increased importance of integrating testing earlier in the mobile app development lifecycle, which customers can now do with Perfecto Mobile’s new Continuous Quality Lab. The Company also opened a new state-of-the-art data center in Phoenix, Ariz. to serve its enterprise customers.

Perfecto Mobile doubled its employee growth in 2014 and plans to add 70 new positions in 2015. The Company is currently hiring for a variety of positions across the United States, United Kingdom and Israel; listings can be found here.

"Perfecto Mobile’s continued growth affirms our investment in the company. In answering the demand from enterprises to ensure the quality of applications, the Continuous Quality Lab provides a scalable, open platform that is adaptable to the constantly changing mobile market,” said Dave Fachetti, Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners. “The Company’s strong leadership team has a firm pulse on this multibillion dollar mobile app quality market and leads the way with its innovative solutions.”

Continuing its growth path, Perfecto Mobile established a new state of the art U.S. data center in Phoenix, Ariz. boasting 10,000 square feet of space and an initial 1,500 mobile devices equipped for app testing. This newest data center joins Perfecto Mobile’s expanding global presence with a sixth office in Germany and data centers across the U.S., UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany, Switzerland and Israel. The company also signed more than 110 new customers within the last quarter of 2014 and currently hosts a customer base that includes 1,500 organizations across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries, including Paychex, Weight Watchers, Prudential, Verizon, Blue Cross Blue Shield and T-Mobile and top names in Fortune 100/500.

“2014 was truly a banner year for our company. With the focus on maintaining consistent brand reputation through the delivery of business-critical mobile apps, enterprises are looking for ways to constantly improve the quality of their apps starting early in the SDLC,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO of Perfecto Mobile. “Our mission has always been to provide our customers with the best technology, delivering quality applications that exceed end users’ expectations – and our efforts are paying off. Our record-breaking year is a reflection of enterprises embracing Continuous Quality to deliver better quality apps faster, and is a great precursor to the growth we will experience in 2015.”

In 2014, Perfecto Mobile raised $20 million in growth equity funding to grow its sales & marketing organizations, and innovate and expand its Continuous Quality Lab offering and associated services. This resulted in multiple industry accolades, including the 2014 SD Times 100, Red Herring Top 100 Global, The Mobility Tech Zone Product of the Year, Network Products Guide 2014 Gold Hot Company, On Demand Top 100 “Ones to Watch,” Mobile Village Mobile Shining Star, the Continuous Quality Lab was also named a finalist for “Best in Mobile” Cloud solution for the Cloud Awards and CTO Yoram Mizrachi was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year award finalist.

About Perfecto Mobile

Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, provides a hybrid cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab that enables mobile app development and testing teams to deliver better apps faster. The Continuous Quality Lab supports testing processes earlier and more often in the development cycle, giving way to faster feedback and improved time to market. Users can access an exhaustive selection of real mobile devices connected to live networks around the world and leverage them for testing and monitoring throughout the mobile application development lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support.

More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto Mobile visit www.perfectomobile.com or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

As the provider of choice for dozens of participating stations, networks, and NFL teams, 85 LiveU units transmitted 4,460 GB of data and 1,785 hours of video for the event By PR Newswire

LiveU, the pioneer and leader in IP-based live video services and broadcast solutions for acquisition, management and distribution, today announced it supported its largest Super Bowl deployment to date, with a 70% increase in the number of LiveU field units used in Phoenix, AZ compared to last year's event. 85 LiveU field units were in use to cover Super Bowl week XLIX and additional events in Phoenix, including the Pro Bowl, Media Day, Fan Fests, the Phoenix Open, and the Big Game itself. This included rights-holders and other broadcast networks, local affiliates from across the US, several NFL teams, and international networks. The units performed exceptionally well throughoutthe week in Phoenix. LiveU also secured two dedicated hotspots in downtown Phoenix for the exclusive use of its customers, giving them an extra layer of redundancy. LiveU's professional services team was onsite throughout the week to provide 24/7 service and support, as needed.

Since the first appearance of LiveU's cellular bonding technology at the 2010 Super Bowl, LiveU has reported accelerated growth of the technology's adoption each year. LiveU attributes this increase in demand for Super Bowl coverage to the following primary factors:

Broadcasters trust LiveU as their primary means of uplink from major events due to the performance of LiveU's LU500 portable yet highly resilient transmission backpack, the maturation of cellular bonding technology, and the increased LTE deployment by cellular carriers, resulting in broadcasters sending a greater number of LiveU devices, and renting or driving-in fewer satellite trucks compared to previous years.

The lower cost of LiveU compared to traditional uplink, plus the desire of local stations to produce more original content to be competitive, means that many additional stations started covering the Super Bowl with their own people on the ground. This includes those who aren't rights-holders for the game and aren't from the participating markets (such as stations from outside New England and Washington state, and non-NBC affiliates).

More NFL teams, even those not in the game, sent representatives with their LiveU units to cover their Pro Bowl players and other events at Radio Row. In fact, more than half the NFL teams currently use LiveU on a regular basis to stream exclusive content to their websites and mobile apps.

Over the last year, LiveU has increased its overall customer base, and has deployed additional units with existing customers. This naturally led to an increased number of units at the Super Bowl.

A larger concentration of events surrounding this year's Super Bowl, which attracted even more media. While in most previous years the Pro Bowl was played in Hawaii, this year it was played in the same stadium as the Super Bowl. In addition, the Phoenix Open Golf tournament was played on the same week, and various large fan fests and concerts took place around town.

"Fans crave sports-related content. Over the past few years we've seen demand for content increase, and both traditional and online media increasing their amount of coverage to maintain a competitive edge and to cross-promote their other assets" said Ken Zamkow, LiveU's VP Marketing, Americas. "LiveU is helping fuel this increase in live programming by offering very cost-effective and easy-to-use tools for video transmission and management."

Zamkow continued, "Although we ended up not needing the hotspots at all, we secured them because we wanted to give our customers an extra layer of redundancy and peace of mind, in the event that there would be cellular congestion in downtown Phoenix during the week. But the reality was that the cellular LTE coverage was excellent, and our own technology has matured to a point where everything was chugging along smoothly across downtown Phoenix throughout the week."

LiveU will present its full range of portable uplink solutions at the NAB Show, April 13-16, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth number SU4405. If you are interested in visiting at the show, contact liveu@vantagepr.com.

About LiveULiveU is the pioneer in IP-based live video services and solutions for acquisition, management and distribution. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission from any location around the world with lightweight, easy-to-use equipment. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid vehicles to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage anytime, anywhere. In addition, LiveU offers extensive cloud-based management and video distribution solutions. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions are being utilized for breaking and developing news, and high-profile events such as the FIFA World Cup, Winter and Summer Olympic Games, Presidential Campaigns, Super Bowls, US Collegiate Championships, and red-carpet events. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and WiFi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions. For more information, visit www.liveu.tv, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram.

TRITON DIGITAL has entered into an exclusive partnership with EXELATE to deliver the first-ever streaming audio Data Management Platform (DMP). The new platform will enhance the ability of ad buyers to reach their desired audiences with targeted audio campaigns via mobile or desktop.

“TRITON and EXELATE are breaking totally new ground within the programmatic audio advertising industry with the launch of the first audio-focused DMP,” said EXELATE CEO MARK ZAGORSKI. “This partnership is crucial for ad buyers and marketers, as it will empower them to make smarter programmatic audio ad buys and execute cross-device and multi-channel campaigns that include mobile, audio, video, and display. EXELATE’s ability to capture, manage, and activate billions of data points across all channels and devices will power a highly customized ad experience for TRITON’s customers and advertisers.”

“Digital audio has become an important piece of the digital advertising mix, particularly as more and more consumer attention is captured in a mobile context. Until now audio has not been available as part of a multi-channel programmatic buy,” said TRITON DIGITAL COO MIKE AGOVINO. “Beginning today, digital audio can garner a larger share of the market by attracting a piece of the larger multi-channel programmatic budget.”

Rapid growth continues; wins Deloitte Fast 500 for third consecutive year, and one of Top 100 financial services companies in Inc. 5000 for second consecutive year. Global expansion continues with strategic funding, new offices in Silicon Valley and Asia, and launch of Payoneer Ambassador Program.

Payoneer Inc., a leading global payments company, today announced several 2014 company milestones as it looks ahead to continued growth and expansion in 2015.

Based on the strength of its mission to empower global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and companies, Payoneer has experienced one of its most successful years to-date. Top milestones from 2014 include:

o Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the financial services industry and an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group, LLP

Fast growth and innovation recognized once again in leading industry awards:

o Deloitte Fast 500 – Third year in a row with 762% growth over past 5 years

o Inc. 5000 – Ranked in the top 100 Financial Services companies for the second year in a row

o 2015 Paybefore Award – Winner of the Think Local, Pay Global award

Industry luminaries added to board and advisory team:

o Hans Morris, former Citi executive and Visa President

o Lazaro Campos, former SWIFT CEO

Added major mass payout partners:

o Airbnb, Wish and many more industry-leading marketplaces, enterprises and language service providers

o Selected as a global payments provider by Google for Trusted Stores program, which helps customers identify merchants they can trust online

Exceeded 100,000 monthly applications

Launched brand ambassador program and hosted large-scale Payoneer Forum events in Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Japan and Pakistan. Fifteen more countries will be added throughout 2015.

“There’s a lot to be excited about at Payoneer with much more to come as we look ahead to 2015,” said Scott Galit, CEO, Payoneer. “With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, we’re poised to continue building momentum as we enable and accelerate cross-border growth for more businesses and professionals in all corners of the world. Our innovative payment solutions have enabled us to achieve our 2014 milestones, and our commitment to customer experience, compliance and risk management positions us for sustainable growth.”

To learn more about how Payoneer is empowering global commerce with cross-border payment services for business, visit the Payoneer website.

With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally. Founded in 2005 and based in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000’s Financial Services companies. For more information, visit us at http://www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

HARMAN International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE:HAR), the premier audio, visual, infotainment and enterprise automation group, today announced the acquisition of Israeli-based Red Bend Software, a leading provider of software management technology for connected devices, and over-the-air (OTA) software and firmware upgrading services. Building upon Red Bend’s strength in the mobile and carrier markets, HARMAN will accelerate Red Bend’s growth in the automotive space and will position Red Bend software as the de facto standard for OTA software services for mobile devices and automotive applications.

The transaction is valued at $170 million, including approximately $99 million in stock and $71 million in cash. The number of HARMAN shares issued will be based on the volume weighted average trading price 60 days prior to January 21. Under the agreement, the selling stockholders of Red Bend are eligible for a cash earn-out of up to $30 million in the first quarter of calendar year 2017 based on the achievement of certain performance milestones.

Red Bend is the world’s leading provider of the most advanced OTA solutions, serving top handset manufacturers and mobile carriers with more than two billion Red Bend-enabled devices in the market globally. Sophisticated software systems like Red Bend are the cornerstone of a steadily increasing number of integrated and interoperating devices, and managing updates for firmware, middleware, third party apps, and other services.

“This acquisition of Red Bend, a true pioneer in OTA and virtualization technologies for cyber security, adds a critical component to our automotive systems and services portfolio that will essentially future proof software in cars, ultimately making them safer, smarter and more efficient,” said Dinesh C. Paliwal, Chairman, President, and CEO of HARMAN. “Together with our Symphony Teleca acquisition, HARMAN now has the essential foundation and deep bench strength for a comprehensive systems and services portfolio. Today marks a huge transformation for HARMAN and further advancement towards delivering consumers a seamless, connected car and connected lifestyle experience.”

“With over 15 years of success in delivering world-class over-the-air update solutions to the telecom and mobile markets, we are pleased to bring our proven track record to HARMAN,” said Yoram Salinger, President and CEO of Red Bend. “By joining forces with HARMAN, we will accelerate our growth in expanding markets such as the connected car while also continuing to support billions of mobile devices. Beyond mobile, Red Bend and HARMAN will implement OTA software management to enhance infotainment and embedded system performance as well as other in-car ECU-based systems. These solutions will benefit the entire automotive ecosystem through cost savings, increased security and a seamless customer experience.”

Red Bend’s software management solutions and hypervisor-based virtualization technologies for cyber security are already widely adopted in mobile devices and ideally suited to meet the rising demands of the connected car. By 2020, it is expected that more than 90 percent of vehicles on the road will be connected (Frost and Sullivan). Importantly, Red Bend solutions also serve as critical prerequisites for autonomous driving. By bringing Red Bend under the HARMAN umbrella and driving broad industry usage, HARMAN’s combined technology portfolio will seamlessly enable safe, secure OTA updates for a variety of on-board Harman and non-Harman automotive systems – whether embedded or downloaded -- speeding the pace of innovation to automakers and the industry.

The Red Bend acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing adjustments. It is expected to close in third quarter of HARMAN’s 2015 fiscal year.

Upon close of the transaction, Red Bend will operate within HARMAN as an independent unit led by its existing management team, while benefiting from HARMAN’s scale, resources, and deep automotive domain experience. Red Bend will remain dedicated to serving and growing its target markets, including mobile handset OEMs, service providers, semiconductor vendors and tablet manufacturers, as well as its growing base of automotive OEMs and other Tier 1 suppliers.

Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call with the investment community Thursday, January 22 at 10:00 AM EST. To participate, dial 1-800-763-6564 (North America) or 1-212-231-2924 (International), Access Code 21760117.

A replay of the call will also be available following its completion at approximately 1:00 p.m. EST. To listen to the replay, dial 1-800-633-8284 (U.S.) or 1-402-977-9140 (International), Access Code 21760117.

About HARMAN

HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets premier audio, visual, infotainment and enterprise automation solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson ® and Revel®, the Company is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 16,600 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $5.6 billion for the 12 months ended September 30, 2014. The Company’s shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE:HAR.

About Red Bend Software

Red Bend catalyzes change in the connected world. We have been keeping more than two billion mobile, automotive and IoT devices continuously relevant with over-the-air software updates, and with virtualization and device management services. Our robust technology and solution offerings deliver instant market impact — accelerating business results, optimizing performance and improving people’s lives. Building on nearly two decades of experience, and on our proven track record working with hundreds of leading global brands, we make it easy for customers across all geographies to optimize deployment of change, and reliably enhance any connected device — regardless of size and complexity — with ever-increasing value. For more information, visit www.redbend.com.

RealMatch, the leading provider of performance-based recruitment advertising solutions, announced today it has closed an additional $8 million in venture capital funding as part of a Series C-1 round led by Edison Partners with participation by Orix Ventures and Carmel Ventures.

RealMatch is on a mission to disrupt the highly fragmented online recruitment industry with the most advanced job matching technology and the only performance-based recruitment advertising network designed to connect employers and job seekers across the Web in the most efficient manner possible.

"RealMatch has quickly become a dominant player in the recruitment advertising space with innovative technology and strong partnerships with leading digital publishers who provide access to a vast pool of employers and talent that reside in their online communities" said Jonathan Bulkeley, Chief Executive Officer at RealMatch. "Additional funding from existing and new investors further validates our model and will help us secure the leadership position in the market.

" David Nevas, Principal at Edison Partners noted, "RealMatch offers the only solution that addresses the profound inefficiencies that have plagued the online recruitment market for years. The company is well-poised to become a market leader, and our additional investment is intended to help the company accelerate its rapid expansion in the market."

"RealMatch's rapid growth continues to validate the company's vision and the market demand for their pioneering technology," added Ronen Nir, General Partner, Carmel Ventures. "We look forward to our continued support in the company." Carmel Ventures made its initial investment in RealMatch in 2010.

"We are very excited to have the opportunity to invest in RealMatch at this stage of the company's growth," said William Bishop, Managing Director and Co-Head, Orix Ventures. "We immediately realized the immense value RealMatch brings to the lucrative online recruitment market and the company's potential to disrupt the market."

When asked how the company will use the funds, RealMatch's Chief Financial Officer, Ezra Sofer, stated that the proceeds of this round will be used to support growth in all fields of operations including investment in new products and services to meet the demand for existing and new channels.

About RealMatch:

RealMatch offers digital publishers a superior way to engage and monetize their audiences with its revolutionary white-label recruitment advertising solution that is transforming the $19 billion online recruitment industry. RealMatch's performance-oriented solution is built on the industry's most advanced job matching technology and features predictive performance algorithms and real-time performance monitoring capabilities that automatically create and optimize ad distribution campaigns across the company's vast recruitment ad network called TheJobNetwork™. RealMatch's innovative technology and vast reach to talent across the Web produce unrivaled posting performance and candidate engagement, allowing digital publishers who partner with RealMatch to significantly increase their ad revenue and gain a competitive advantage in their communities with online recruitment.

About Edison Partners:

For 28 years, Edison Partners has been helping CEOs and their executive teams navigate the entrepreneurial journey to becoming successful companies. Through the unique combination of expansion capital and the Edison Edge platform, consisting of strategic advisory, the Edison Director Network, and executive education, Edison employs a holistic approach to nurturing invention and creating value for growth stage businesses ($5 to $20 million in revenue) in financial technology, healthcare IT, enterprise IT, and interactive marketing industries. Edison investment objectives also include: buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts and secondary stock purchases.

The Edison portfolio has created aggregate market value exceeding $5 billion. Its long-tenured team, based in Lawrenceville, NJ, New York, NY, McLean, VA and Cleveland, OH, manages $928 million in assets throughout the eastern United States.

About Carmel Ventures:

With over $800 million currently under management, many successful exits, and a growing portfolio of promising start-ups, Carmel is among Israel's top-tier venture capital funds. Founded in 2000 by pioneers and leaders of the Israeli high tech industry, Carmel provides significant capital and active, hands-on support through the growth cycle of its portfolio companies and is recognized as a true company-building fund in Israel. Carmel, headquartered in Herzliya, is a member of the Viola Group, Israel's premier technology focused Private Equity group with $2B under management. For more information, please visit www.carmelventures.com and our new blog: www.viola-notes.com.

About Orix Ventures:

ORIX Ventures is dedicated to supporting high-growth companies with a range of debt and equity products and is capable of leading debt or private equity transactions with total commitments as high as $50 million. Since its inception in 2001, ORIX Ventures has invested more than $1.3 billion across more than 120 growth companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. ORIX Ventures is a subsidiary of ORIX USA, a Dallas-based financial services firm with more than 1,400 employees and principal offices in Atlanta; Chicago; Hartford, Conn.; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; New York; San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, D.C.; Frankfurt, Germany; London; and Paris. ORIX USA holds approximately $7 billion of assets and manages an additional $30 billion, approximately. ORIX USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of ORIX Corporation, a Tokyo-based, publicly-owned international financial services company with operations in 36 countries and regions worldwide. ORIX Corporation is listed on the Tokyo (8591) and New York Stock Exchanges (IX). For more information on ORIX USA, visit www.orix.com.

Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses send and receive cross-border payments, has partnered with Bank Asia to help Bangladeshi freelancers receive payments from international companies more quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Payoneer’s new online payment gateway opens up local bank withdrawals in Bangladesh, which enables U.S. companies to tap into talent from Bangladesh in a way that was not previously possible. By using Payoneer’s payment services, freelancers and business owners can receive payments for services provided internationally directly to their Payoneer account in U.S. dollars and then transfer these funds to their bank account in Bangladesh in a fast, efficient and low-cost way.

Bangladesh is the third-largest freelance market in the world. The country’s estimated 500,000 freelancers – including writers, designers, developers, photographers and more – needed an easier way to receive payments for their services from international companies.

“Our goal is simple – to give both professionals in Bangladesh and U.S. businesses the tools they need to connect,” said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. “Payoneer and Bank Asia both aim to provide modern and innovative financial services that enable the globalization of business. We’re excited to play a role in empowering Bangladeshi talent by connecting them with business opportunities the Internet has created around the world.”

On January 8, Payoneer and Bank Asia held a launch ceremony in Dhaka which included Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. The ceremony was also attended by the Chairman of Bank Asia, A. Rouf Chowdhury; the President and Managing Director of Bank Asia, Md. Mehmood Husain; and Mr. Shamim Ahsan, President of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), as well as Scott Galit and Patrick de Courcy, Payoneer’s Head of Asia Pacific. Over the past month, Payoneer has also hosted two conferences in Dhaka through its Brand Ambassador program, which brought together more than 1,000 participants to learn more about expanding their global businesses.

“The events we hosted in Bangladesh are just another way we’re providing professionals and businesses with the tools they need to succeed in the connected business world,” said Galit. “On the back end, we provide a simple way for them to receive payments – but there’s much more to it. Through our Brand Ambassador program, we give professionals in these dynamic markets tools to network with other freelancers, hear from established speakers and ultimately set them up for wide business success.”

Payoneer’s Brand Ambassador program has now launched in five countries: Japan, China, Argentina, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The program hosts local events to assist professionals using Payoneer in growing their business. Payoneer is launching the program in 15 additional countries through 2015.

To learn more about how Payoneer is empowering global commerce with cross-border payment services for business, visit the Payoneer website.

About Bank Asia

Bank Asia Limited is one of the leading third generation private commercial banks in Bangladesh. The Bank started its journey in November 1999. Over the years, through dedicated customer service, creating a team of high skilled professional bankers, expansion of branch network and developing a strong IT platform, the Bank has gradually emerged as a highly renowned Bank in the country. For more information, visit http://www.bankasia-bd.com.

With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally. Founded in 2005 and based in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000’s Financial Services companies. For more information, visit us at http://www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Digital content has been an elaborate issue for many sports organizations as the use of technology-based broadcasting becomes ever more apparent in the 21st century. Sports organizations are constantly looking at ways to take advantage of the growing online market for sports content, which gives fans even more access to their favorite teams.

In keeping with online movement, the New York Jets have partnered with LiveU, a company that specializes in providing up-to-date broadcasting and live video transmission around the world. This partnership allows the Jets to instantly upload new content to their website and mobile application for increased content volume on both their website and mobile app.

The decision to partner with LiveU and purchase the LU500 backpack came during the 2014 preseason, when the Jets wanted to capture more of training camp for their online publications. With this purchase, the Jets can record and upload content from anywhere in the stadium, including the stadium tunnels, buses, and sidelines.

With this technology, the Jets will constantly be able to update their online presence, keeping fans engaged with the latest news about the team even during the off-season. This will help the Jets to bridge the gap between the online world and the real world of sports, giving fans a new football experience directly from their homes, with access to the teams inner-workings off of the field as well as on the field, such as practices and locker room coverage.

This technology allows any fan with the mobile app or access to the website direct live video coverage on certain press conferences and pre- and post-game shows.

“Technologies like LiveU make it possible for fans to get exclusive content from behind the scenes that they could never access before,” said Ken Zamkow, Vice President of Marketing for LiveU, Americas, Hackensack, N.J.

“Fans get to know their favorite players and coaches up close. This video consumption in turn attracts sponsors, increases fan loyalty and merchandise and ticket sales, and more.”

Viola Group, Israel’s premier technology oriented private
equity investment group with over $2 billion under management, has just
launched its brand new content site Viola
Notes (www.viola-notes.com). The new blog will tap into the vast
knowledge-pool of Viola’s investment professionals in an effort to boost
transparency and generate discussions that can help empower tech companies for
growth.

“Our team here at Viola includes highly experienced
individuals who have been in the business of growing businesses for many years and
we want to share our collective experience with the wider tech community”, said
Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Carmel Ventures. “Also, we feel that there’s
room in the Israeli blogosphere for more forums that deal with subjects
uniquely relevant to the Israeli tech industry and we’re excited to offer Viola
Notes as a platform to share insights and generate discussions.”

“We often share our experiences and best practices with
members of our portfolio companies and our close network, but it’s occurred to
us that we lack a forum to share these insights with other members of the
broader tech community,” said Hila Shitrit Nissim, Marketing Director at Viola
Group. “Launching a blog feels like an obvious step for us, especially
given the value of original, high-quality content these days.”

Viola Notes is aimed at entrepreneurs and business people
both in Israel and abroad and will offer insights on trends and topics relating
to startups, business growth, investment and more, as well as practical ‘how
to’ style posts.

Viola Group’s team members will be the main contributors to
the blog, but it will also feature an exciting lineup of guest bloggers from
among Viola’s over 100 portfolio companies as well as hand-picked industry
experts from around the world.

Viola Notes is managed by Noya Lizor, Viola
Group’s newly appointed Director of Content who was brought in specifically
to focus on the group’s content marketing activities, which is a first in the
local VC landscape. Originally from Israel, Noya spent over 20 years in
Australia where she worked in a variety of creative and editorial roles both in
publishing and advertising. Her last role before returning to Israel was at
McCann Worldgroup (Sydney) and since returning to Israel 6 years ago she has worked
in Israel’s vibrant startup scene in several senior marketing roles.

“Viola Group is all about empowering tech companies for
growth. My vision for this blog is to present highly interesting, useful and
hopefully inspirational content, some of which will come from the highly
experienced folks at Viola and some from members of the tech community itself
whose expertise I feel is particularly relevant to our audience” said Ms.
Lizor. “There’s lots of terrific content
in the pipeline for 2015 and we’re looking forward to sharing it with Viola Notes
subscribers and followers”.

Long Ridge Equity Partners led the round
with the participation of TradAir’s existing venture capital investors- Carmel Ventures and Genesis Partners; Cliff
Lewis Joins as Chairman

London,
New York, Tel Aviv xx Jan 2015 – TradAir, a leading provider of foreign exchange trading
technology, announced today that it recently closed a $15 million growth equity
round led by new investor Long Ridge Equity Partners. TradAir’s existing venture
capital investors, Carmel Ventures and Genesis Partners, also participated in
the round. The new financing positions TradAir to continue its rapid growth and
further bolster its technology capabilities. Concurrent with the investment,
former Currenex CEO Cliff Lewis will join TradAir as Chairman.

“Given
their deep expertise in financial technology and the trading market, we are
very excited to partner with Long Ridge,” said TradAir CEO Illit Geller. “We have a strong track record of success
with our clients and access to additional capital will allow us to continue to
grow and deliver market-leading technology to the market.”

“We
are impressed with the success TradAir’s team has achieved over a short period
of time,” said Jim Brown, Long Ridge’s Managing Partner. “The company has developed a strong
reputation as a technology leader and client feedback is very positive. We are excited by the opportunity to partner
with the TradAir team to build a leading technology business.”

Concurrent
with Long Ridge’s investment, Cliff Lewis will join TradAir as Chairman. Cliff Lewis formerly served as CEO of
Currenex, a leading FX trading platform acquired by State Street in 2007. Following the sale of Currenex, Cliff joined
State Street as Executive Vice President with responsibility for the electronic
trading business (e-Exchange). Cliff is also a management board member for
CBOT-EUREX.

“We
are delighted to have Cliff join our company as Chairman,” said Illit
Geller. “Through his impressive 30-year
career, he has become a leader in capital markets. His deep domain knowledge, visionary views
and extensive relationships will be an invaluable resource to TradAir.”

Added
Cliff Lewis, “TradAir’s IT development capability will be the foundation for
success. We’ll be focused on helping
clients make money by deploying our products as the FX and rates markets
continue their rapid evolution.”

About
TradAir

TradAir
is a leading provider of cross asset front office optimization solutions
designed to offer financial institutions the ability to enhance their client
relationships and participation in the global markets, creating new revenue
streams and reducing costs. TradAir provides an end-to-end
infrastructure from price generation and dynamic distribution to algo trading
optimization solutions utilizing the latest technology. The TradAir
solution is modular and seamlessly integrates with existing components, providing
the highest level of customization, flexibility and time to market.
TradAir has offices in London, New York and Tel Aviv.

Media contact

Brian
Andreyko BrianA@TradAir.com

About
Long Ridge Equity Partners

Founded in 2007, Long Ridge is a private equity firm focused
on the financial services industry. Leveraging deep sector knowledge and an
extensive network of industry resources, Long Ridge serves as a value-added
partner to high-growth financial services businesses. Over the last decade,
Long Ridge’s principals have sponsored some of the most successful growth
companies in the financial sector, providing strategic resources and capital to
drive profitable expansion.

There are a number of companies offering enterprise collaboration products, but Clarizen is among the first to be awarded a patent for its technology.

The patent relates to the company's InterAct email engine which lets users trigger specific project-related actions like approval processes, generating reports, creating new projects and other workflows through their email.

"This patent is an important technical milestone for Clarizen, one that has been in the making for several years," says Avinoam Nowogrodski, founder and CEO of Clarizen. "It underscores the significant investment we have made in continuous innovation to stay one step ahead of customer and market needs. The value the technology delivers is a strategic win for Clarizen's customers, and we look forward to sharing more patented innovations with them in the future".

Clarizen InterAct allows users to use their email as a routing system so they can generate an unlimited number of email addresses and associated actions, business and routing rules. Emails can be sent via Clarizen requesting an updated report and receive an automated reply with the report attached.

Issues can also be submitted to InterAct via email or a form, prompting the issue to be automatically added to the appropriate project with a notification sent to the project manager.

"Email is still by far the most used collaboration tool, but email was not really built to support collaboration (many-to-many). What Clarizen has done with this patent is part of a trend we are seeing where team members are moving from email to more context-based in-app communications," says David Coleman, senior research analyst at Gigaom Research and managing director of Collaborative Strategies, Inc.

Bank Asia Limited has partnered with another leading Online Payment Gateway Service (OPGS) provider-- Payoneer Inc. USA-- to facilitate Bangladeshi freelancers receive their payments in a quick, easier and cheaper way.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman formally launched the service at a city hotel Thursday.

The launching ceremony was attended, among others, by A Rouf Chowdhury, chairman of Bank Asia, Scott H. Galit, CEO of Payoneer, Patrick De Courcy , its regional head in Asia Pacific, AM Nurul Islam, vice chairman of the bank, Rumee A Hossain, chairman of its executive committee, Shameem Ahsan, president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), Md. Mehmood Husain, President and Managing Director (MD) of Bank Asia, Md. Ahsan Ullah, Executive Director of BB and Zia Arfin, SVP and head of international division at the bank.

Earlier in March, 2012, the Bank Asia also ventured with 'Payza' in rendering the online payment gateway service. Payoneer is here in Bangladesh for the first time.

At present, officials said, about 250,000 freelancers are involved in exporting their IT services and earning foreign currencies.

OPGS provider system plays an important role to bring small amount of foreign exchange, earned against IT services exported by the freelancers, he said.

Citing different BB initiatives supporting the IT freelancing and such payment, Dr Rahman said, "These initiatives of liberalising foreign exchange transactions are contributing towards creating business friendly environment for service exporters, particularly for the freelancers."

In terms of earnings, Bangladesh already ranked the seventh among 186 countries, where online jobs are outsourced, he said.

MetricNet, LLC, leading provider of benchmarks for IT service and support professionals, and Samanage, leading provider of cloud-based service desk software, announced today a partnership that will deliver the first of its kind, SaaS-based real-time benchmarking solution that fully integrates with the Samanage Enterprise Service Desk.

“Samanage Benchmarking will provide real-time performance benchmarks against thousands of service desks worldwide,” said Jeff Rumburg, managing partner and co-founder, MetricNet. “It automates data collection, performance reporting, diagnosis, and action planning, and charts your journey to world-class performance. The service utilizes the Samanage product together with MetricNet’s consultation will work with customers to identify their KPI’s and develop the initial recommendations in terms of improvement opportunities,” said Rumburg.

Development will be done to provide recommendations for service desk improvement based on benchmarking results. "Our years of studying the behavior of thousands of service desks across every industry has revealed "cause and effect" relationships between many metrics,” said Rumburg. “We will build an intelligent "recommendation engine" that will offer specific actions that can be taken to improve key performance areas," said Rumburg.

“This type of endeavor can only be done when you combine a cloud-based, multi-tenant solution like Samanage with the expertise and robust benchmarking data of MetricNet,” said Doron Gordon, CEO, Samanage. “IT service organizations will have the power to measure their performance and develop continuous improvement plans that will move them forward in a much faster time frame,” said Gordon.

MetricNet and Samanage both bring unique expertise to the collaboration. Samanage is a fast growth IT service management software provider that is challenging the traditional legacy providers with modern enterprise service desk software that manages service relationships across an organization. Samanage enterprise service desk software is instantly deployed and continuously updated in the cloud. Samanage service and asset management software lets you quickly drive business value by connecting your people with the key business services they use every day.

More than half of the Fortune 500 rely on MetricNet benchmarks to improve and optimize their performance. With a global benchmarking database of more than 3,000 IT service and support benchmarks, MetricNet has the most comprehensive database of process and performance metrics in the industry. Jeff Rumburg is the premier expert in the space. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ron Muns Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the service and support industry, and has served as a service desk and desktop support expert to some of the world’s largest corporations, including American Express, Hewlett-Packard, General Motors, and IBM.

“The partnership will give customers a completely new way of measuring themselves against their peer industry groups, and redefine how ‘continuous improvement’ is done,” said Doron Gordon, CEO, Samanage. “Starting first with IT, Samanage Benchmarking will become the industry’s first Enterprise Service desk solution powered by a fully integrated continuous improvement engine for the entire organization.”

The Vision for Service Desk Benchmarking By providing easier and more accessible benchmarking in real-time, it will allow companies of all sizes to benchmark their service desk performance at the same level of sophistication that was once only possible for larger enterprise organizations.

“When productivity is hampered at the service desk level, the entire organization feels the effect,” said Rumburg. “Without the incredible insight provided from benchmarking processes, companies really don’t know how to fix what’s broken, nor build upon what appears to be working.”

Gordon adds that traditional benchmarking models can be very time intensive and haven’t been built for the SaaS world of today. “By the time you bring in specialized consultants and get any useful data out of the process and get to work on improvements, months or even years have passed,” said Rumburg. “By that time the needle has moved again, and companies are again behind where they need to be.”

“We will make benchmarking real time and affordable, said Rumburg. “It will just be part of the way business is done. You will be able to constantly rate and improve yourself. It will give an entirely new meaning to continuous improvement.”

About Samanage Samanage is enterprise service desk software that manages service relationships in the company and helps get work done. Samanage delivers an exceptional user experience with beautiful software that people love to use. Instantly deployed and continuously updated in the cloud, Samanage service and asset management software lets you quickly drive business value by connecting your people with the key business services they use every day. Visit http://www.samanage.com.

About MetricNet MetricNet is the global leader in IT service and support benchmarking. More than half of the Fortune 500 rely on MetricNet benchmarks to improve and optimize their performance. With a global benchmarking database of more than 3,000 IT service and support benchmarks, MetricNet has the most comprehensive database of process and performance metrics in the industry. Visit http://www.metricnet.com

Now Processing 23 Million Signals a Minute in Real-Time, eXelate Provides Marketers With the Industry's Most Scalable Data Management Technology Infrastructure

eXelate, the leading independent data platform, today announced the achievement of a major milestone, having created the 15 trillionth audience segment for the digital marketing ecosystem since its 2008 U.S. launch. Audience segments are a collection of signals which may include demographics, purchase history, web browsing activity or a variety of other behaviors, collected from online (mobile / desktop /video) and offline sources, which are packaged and delivered to affect more targeted advertising. In the past year, eXelate's business has more than tripled; as a result, eXelate now processes 23 million signals each minute, or 375,000 each second.

eXelate's momentum comes at a time when marketers are looking to evolve their capabilities to connect with customers in an increasingly complex, cross screen, on and offline buying journey.

"The demand for our enterprise grade data, data management and measurement solutions extends across many types of customers as volume, speed and scale of processing data have emerged as key competitive advantages for driving real sales results," said Mark Zagorski, CEO of eXelate. "No one is connecting more data of more of the players in the marketing, ad tech and agency worlds than eXelate."

eXelate's massively scaled infrastructure processes consumer attributes and behaviors into audience segments across 5 billion monthly unique devices and their users by working directly with leading brands, hundreds of publishers and offline data sources to analyze, score and package audience data. In parallel, more than 125 marketing platforms choose to synchronize their own user data with eXelate, which continuously updates 3.4 trillion segments per month, 78 million per segment, providing these marketing platforms with the freshest real time audience data.

eXelate is at the core of servicing the digital marketing landscape, including brands, agencies, trading desks, publishers, digital media companies and marketing technology platforms. It puts the power of our advanced data infrastructure, once exclusively reserved for select industry giants, directly into the hands of the marketer.

eXelate, the leading independent data platform, empowers marketers with better insights and massive reach to more effectively engage consumers. Through eXelate's maX DMP (data management platform), fueled by eXelate's eXchange, first-party data can be managed, modeled, mobilized and measured across video, mobile and display channels. eXelate's eXchange, the largest pool of directly measured consumer data, reaches two billion active users and devices worldwide and includes key purchasing touch points -- online and offline -- from Nielsen, MasterCard Advisors, IXI and many more. As a member of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising and Evidon's Open Data Partnership, eXelate adheres to privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit www.eXelate.com or follow @eXelate.

BOSTON & MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Testbirds, the leading crowdtesting pioneer in Europe, and Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile application quality, today announced a partnership that combines their extensive testing expertise to further increase mobile application quality.

“With millions of apps available for download and thousands of different mobile devices on the market, testing mobile applications has become a challenging and time-consuming task. Almost half of application defects are found by end users, and some 58 percent of those defects are reported as user interface issues,” said Roi Carmel, Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy at Perfecto Mobile. “Incorporating quality throughout the mobile app lifecycle has never been more crucial than it is today in creating a successful end user experience. We plan on working closely with Testbirds in order to bring together the power of crowdtesting and Perfecto Mobile’s Continuous Quality Lab to push the mobile application quality industry to the next level.”

Both companies specialize in mobile testing solutions for enterprises to test and optimize their applications. Perfecto Mobile offers the Continuous Quality Lab, their on-demand, cloud-based offering that enables the testing (automated and manual functional testing, monitoring and performance) of mobile apps under any real-world end-user condition throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle. Testbirds provides a crowd of professional testers as well as consumers, who test the applications’ usability and functionality under real-life circumstances. The crowd can be accessed via self-service or through a managed testing approach, including professional project managers who ensure quality and evaluate test results.

“We encourage enterprises to utilize different testing techniques throughout the entire development cycle,” says Philipp Benkler, Co-founder and Managing Director at Testbirds. “There are many challenges for companies in setting up a holistic mobile testing approach. We want to share our combined expertise and showcase how to gain the best results at different stages of development.”

Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, provides a hybrid cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab that enables mobile app development and testing teams to deliver better apps faster. The Continuous Quality Lab supports testing processes earlier and more often in the development cycle, giving way to faster feedback and improved time to market. Users can access an exhaustive selection of real mobile devices connected to live networks around the world and leverage them for testing and monitoring throughout the mobile application development lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support.

More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto Mobile, visit perfectomobile.com or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

About Testbirds GmbH

Testbirds is a crowdtesting service provider headquartered in Munich, with offices in the UK, the Netherlands and Hungary. The company specializes in the testing of mobile apps, websites and other software for the entire device landscape (mobile, desktop, smart TV, wearables etc.) on all major operating systems.

Testbirds uses crowdtesting to facilitate software testing in today’s fast-growing world of technology. They hold a worldwide network of testers (crowd) consisting of experts as well as consumers to test software under real world conditions. The crowd finds bugs and gives critical usability feedback, ensuring the highest-possible user experience before launch.

Extensive device ecosystems as well as increased user expectations challenge conventional testing methods. Testbirds offers in-depth and cost-effective quality assurance for web applications and mobiles apps through the crowd on any device, with any target group, at any time. Today, crowdtesting is fast becoming a necessary tool for developers to help improve functionality and overall usability of any application.

Testbirds was founded in 2011 and supported by different institutions and partners. In 2012, the company received a seven-figure seed funding by Walter Beteiligungen und Immobilien AG.

Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 2 billion Red Bend-Enabled™ devices, announced that Spireon, the leading innovator of Mobile Resource Management (MRM) and Business Intelligence Solutions that connect companies to their mobile assets and workforces, has selected Red Bend’s over-the-air (OTA) Software Updating Service to update devices across its NSpire M2M Telematics Platform. This cloud-based platform transmits over five billion data points each year into actionable intelligence for Spireon’s 1.9 million subscribers.

“Red Bend is known in the mobile, IoT and the automotive industries as the leading provider of an OTA update solution that is secure, reliable and cost-efficient.” said Jim Brady, Chief Product Officer at Spireon. “With Red Bend’s OTA Software Updating Service, Spireon can ensure the quality, reliability and speed of updates, so our customers can instantly benefit from the latest in features and software updates.”

“Telematics technologies are becoming more sophisticated benefiting the entire automotive industry from OEMs and Tier 1s to businesses that manage remote vehicle assets and consumers,” said Oren Betzaleli, EVP, products, strategy and marketing at Red Bend. “Partnering with Spireon, a leader in fleet and asset management and automotive telematics solutions, allows Red Bend the continued opportunity to show the cost-savings and revenue-generating business benefits of OTA software management.”

About Red Bend SoftwareRed Bend® Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 2 billion Red Bend-Enabled™ devices, makes mobile devices and services continuously better in a rapidly changing world. Red Bend is the only company that provides standards-based products and solutions for software management, device management and mobile virtualization that work on any mobile phone and connected device uniformly, efficiently and securely over the air. Red Bend enables its customers to stay competitive in a fast-moving market by helping them deliver high-value services on an increasing number of connected devices with growing software complexity. More than 80 leading device manufacturers, mobile operators, semiconductor vendors and automotive companies worldwide trust Red Bend with their most important assets — the mobile and connected devices their consumers depend on.

ironSource, the world’s leading digital delivery platform, today announced the launch of installCore Fusion, allowing publishers to deliver their own downloads with their own installer, while using installCore’s superior ad server to monetize each installation. The installCore ad server combines super-targeting and partnerships with high-quality software vendors to ensure that any participating publisher can connect their users with the right products, at the right time.

“The ultimate goal of advertising on any platform should be presenting the user with something relevant and interesting at a time where they are most likely to engage,” said Sagi Bakshi GM of installCore. “The strength of our model at installCore is such that we are starting to see a growth in awareness of the value of the install process as a time and space to interact effectively with users, and we’re excited to be offering that to even more publishers with Fusion.”

ironSource connects developers with users across every platform and device, handling the distribution, delivery and monetization of web, desktop and mobile applications. Along with its industry-leading installer, installCore offers a highly-targeted ad server that ensures the most relevant offers are presented to users at the most opportune times. The ad server uses superior ad matching technology and unique algorithms to break down user traffic by previous downloads, geographic location, and even time of day, in order to increase the chances of a successful commercial conversion during the install process and drive up pay-per-install rates and revenue for publishers.

“At ironSource, we’ve always been able to combine the best interests of the user and the developer to create a win-win situation for both,” said Tomer Bar Zeev, CEO and Co-Founder of ironSource. “With installCore Fusion, publishers can leverage the power of association, only presenting relevant and worthwhile products that strengthen their relationship with their users and help them generate revenue at the same time.”

installCore Fusion not only offers publishers effective monetization opportunities, but also provides highly-sophisticated analytics and BI tools to help clients optimize their PPI campaigns. Participating publishers can access in-depth data reports with a full breakdown of relevant download statistics presented in a clear and intuitive format, to help reveal key insights and illuminate trends that can improve publisher’s bottom lines.

World leading digital distribution company ironSource offers a comprehensive platform to help developers improve digital discovery, delivery, distribution and monetization. The solution consists of four cores – installCore, mobileCore, displayCore and mediaCore – that connect software developers and users across devices. Founded in 2009 with headquarters in Tel Aviv, ironSource has offices in San Francisco, New York and Beijing. Please visit us at http://www.ironsrc.com.

Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses send and receive cross-border payments, is now facilitating payouts for merchant suppliers on Wish, a top mobile social e-commerce application that offers consumers a highly personalized shopping experience.

Payoneer facilitates payouts to Wish’s merchant suppliers globally through its cross-border payments platform. Through Payoneer’s API, Wish fully integrates payouts with its current business flow, enabling Wish merchant suppliers to instantly receive their payments directly to their Payoneer accounts and have multiple ways to receive their funds in their local currency.

Over the past three years, Wish has quickly grown to host more than tens of millions of users worldwide. It is consistently ranked one of the top mobile applications in both the Android Shopping and iPhone Lifestyle categories, with the majority of orders originating from the Wish mobile application. Wish, with its unique global supply chain networks in countries around the world, needed to provide its merchant suppliers with a compliant way to easily receive payments for their sales. To that end, Payoneer now enables merchant suppliers on Wish to receive their payments through Payoneer’s various payment solutions.

“At Wish, we aim to make the selling process as easy as possible for our merchant suppliers,” said Danny Zhang, co-founder of Wish. “Merchant suppliers simply upload their products, abide by the trading rules and guarantee good quality and on-time delivery. Partnering with Payoneer makes the payout process simple by ensuring merchant suppliers receive their funds quickly and seamlessly. This partnership will help us attract more merchant suppliers around the world and increase overall revenue.”

Payoneer has already built strong momentum in the Asia Pacific region. The company recently announced a strategic investment from Ping An Group, a leading integrated Chinese financial services provider and the largest non-state-owned enterprise in China. In addition, Payoneer recently appointed former SWIFT executive Patrick de Courcy to lead its Asia Pacific business activities.

“Payoneer and Wish have a shared vision for how merchant suppliers from all over the world can rapidly grow their businesses in the modern digital economy,” said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. “Both companies have made significant investments to help merchants around the world sell globally. We are excited to play a role in facilitating growth for such a unique mobile commerce platform by making payouts to Wish’s international sellers easier and more efficient. There is so much opportunity in the Asia Pacific region, and Payoneer is continuing to extend its position there as a leading global payments provider.”

To learn more about how Payoneer is empowering global commerce with cross-border payment services for business, visit the Payoneer website.

With Payoneer’s fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally. Founded in 2005 and based in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000’s Financial Services companies. For more information, visit us at http://www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

LiveU, the pioneer in IP-based portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, today announced that Irish national broadcaster RTE has chosen cellular uplinking technology from LiveU to play a central newsgathering role. The project has been managed and supported by LiveU's Ireland partner, Tyrell.

RTE News has already deployed LiveU's LU500 portable uplink solution and has ordered a LU200 for use with its Ka-band flyaway kit. In addition it's using LU-Smart smartphone app licenses. Piotr Kaszynski, Technology Manager with RTE, said, "We began testing systems with the arrival of 4G, which in turn has improved 3G availability. That led us to choose LiveU for several reasons, specifically for its superior performance and the range of products. We wanted a small, very portable solution that could fit on the back of a camera. The LU500 does exactly this and overcomes the issue of cameramen having to carry a heavy backpack. The LU-Smart app also attracted us. We can see varied applications for this and we are training all our journalists to be flexible in what they use and how they can take advantage of LiveU technology. The support offered by Tyrell and LiveU was also crucial."

The broadcaster is training staff beyond traditional reporters to use LU-Smart technology. Kaszynski said, "We are training staff so that when there is a breaking story we have the flexibility to cover it from as many angles as possible. The rise of news on the internet and its immediacy has changed the way that we have to work. It is not always possible to use Satellite trucks in some locations and they take more time and money to deploy – though of course they have their place - compared to this technology."

RTE has covered a wide range of stories using LiveU's technology, the vast majority live, including: a two-hour Morning Ireland outside broadcast for RTE News Now from the 10th Anniversary of the Workplace Smoking Ban in Ireland; St. Patrick's Parade Dublin city centre and Dublin Castle; President Michael D. Higgins' State Visit to the United Kingdom; and the Electric Picnic Music Festival.

According to Kaszynski, the biggest success was the coverage of the Labour Party Leader's resignation. Notification about the press conference came to RTE half-an-hour before the event started and in this short time an LU500 bonded unit was deployed and setup for live coverage. RTE provided the only live video coverage from the Labour Party press conference and the live feed was picked up by BBC and Sky News. Currently LU500 is on the road every day providing inserts to all main news bulletins and the Morning Edition programme.

Zion Eilam, LiveU's Head of Business Operations Europe, said, "We're very excited to be working in a new territory and special thanks must go to our partner Tyrell. Newsgathering is changing and we are at the vanguard of that change, providing broadcasters with the speed of deployment and mobility that they need to lead the newsgathering market. We're glad that RTE has chosen LiveU for its next newsgathering expansion."

LiveU owns the patent for cellular bonding for remote news gathering in the US and other countries. All LiveU products are based on this fourth-generation patented technology.

About LiveU

LiveU (www.liveu.tv) is the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions are being used for breaking news and high-profile events, such as the FIFA World Cup™, Winter and Summer Olympic Games, US Presidential Campaign, Royal Baby, Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowls and US Collegiate Championships. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.

RealMatch, the leader in performance-based recruitment advertising solutions, announced today that it has launched job sites representing 30 digital newspaper properties in partnership with BH Media Group, a Berkshire Hathaway company. Notable local brands include The Richmond Times Dispatch, Winston Salem Journal, and Florence Morning News among others. The strategic partnership is aimed at helping BH Media Group's local newspapers grow recruitment ad revenue, increase their competitive advantage, and better engage employers and job seekers under their local brands with RealMatch's innovative online recruitment technology.

"The transition to RealMatch from our previous job board vendor comes at a pivotal time for our local properties which are experiencing significant competition and overall changes in online recruitment market," said Doug Hiemstra, COO, BH Media Group Inc. "The superior performance that RealMatch's solution offers will help our local properties grow market share and increase recruitment ad revenue within their respective markets."

The newly launched sites are powered by RealMatch's performance-based recruitment advertising technology which boasts the most advanced job-matching platform and automated ad distribution campaign functionality across thousands of local and niche job sites, job aggregators, and social networks on TheJobNetwork™. RealMatch's innovative technology, vast network reach, and real-time performance management enables digital publishers like BH Media Group to better monetize and engage their audience by delivering up to 4 times the qualified response for employment advertisers along with a much more rewarding experience for job seekers in their communities.

"We have already established a great track record helping several BH Media Group properties grow their recruitment business. This expansion of our partnership is a testament to our success in adding value to digital publishers, making them more competitive and profitable," said Gal Almog, Founder and Group President at RealMatch.

About RealMatch RealMatch offers digital publishers a superior way to engage and monetize their audiences with its revolutionary white-label recruitment advertising solution that is transforming the $19 billion online recruitment industry. RealMatch's performance-oriented solution is built on the industry's most advanced job matching technology and features predictive performance algorithms and real-time performance monitoring capabilities that automatically create and optimize ad distribution campaigns across the company's vast recruitment ad network called TheJobNetwork™. RealMatch's innovative technology and vast reach to talent across the Web produce unrivaled posting performance and candidate engagement, allowing digital publishers who partner with RealMatch to significantly increase their ad revenue and gain a competitive advantage in their communities with online recruitment. To learn more visit www.realmatch.com.

About BH Media Group Inc. BH Media Group, headquartered in Omaha, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Company (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B). BH Media Group owns 30 daily newspapers, related weekly newspapers and a television station. BH Media Group has operations in Nebraska, Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

eXelate, the leading independent data platform, today announced that it has hired Julie Ginches as its chief marketing officer. Drawing from more than 20 years of experience launching and positioning high growth companies, Ginches is now responsible for leading all of eXelate's global marketing functions. She will report to CEO Mark Zagorski.

Ginches has a well-known and admirable track record, most recently serving as CMO of advertising automation company, Rubicon Project, where she helped lead a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) in April 2014. Prior to Rubicon Project, Ginches was an early executive team leader at DataXu, where she built the company's global brand and marketing machine, which helped the company land at No. 5 on the 2013 Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Ginches has held marketing leadership roles at many other notable companies, including Jumptap, which was acquired by Millennial Media, FAST, which was acquired by Microsoft, and epIcon, which was acquired by Nortel.

Ginches, a pioneer and innovator in customer engagement, is known for positioning and repositioning companies at critical inflection points and for enabling them to enter high-velocity, complex markets. She is also known for her work in helping to define the new digital agenda for today's CMO, a key customer for eXelate moving forward.

"Engaging Julie couldn't have come at a better time," said Zagorski. "The customer journey has changed, and CMOs now need new skills and tools to use data and science to better understand, engage and measure their marketing programs across all on and offline channels. eXelate has a powerful story to tell, and Julie is the right person to help educate the world's leading brand marketers on how data solutions can help them increase their success and ROI."

"eXelate has built a great reputation from the legacy data eXchange business," said Ginches. "As a CMO with deep enterprise marketing technology experience, I am thrilled to be able to help other marketers discover our newer software and data services that provide centralized data management, better consumer insights and more accurate targeting and measurement solutions."

In her CMO role, Ginches will lead a team of industry-leading experts in communications, social technology, ecosystem marketing, community development, and customer education and empowerment.

About eXelate

eXelate, the leading independent data platform, empowers marketers with better insights and massive reach to more effectively engage consumers. Through eXelate's maX DMP (data management platform), fueled by eXelate's eXchange, first-party data can be managed, modeled, mobilized and measured across video, mobile and display channels. eXelate's eXchange, the largest pool of directly measured consumer data, reaches two billion active users and devices worldwide and includes key purchasing touch points -- online and offline -- from Nielsen, MasterCard Advisors, IXI and many more. As a member of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising and Evidon's Open Data Partnership, eXelate adheres to privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit www.eXelate.com or follow @eXelate.

ironSource, the world’s leading digital delivery platform, today announced that their industry leading installation platform – installCore – now supports the Mac operating system, providing a comprehensive offering to developers. installCore is one of the first major download platforms to tailor existing services for Mac, allowing developers to tap into a full, cross-platform solution optimized for all leading operating systems. Uniquely, the system was developed internally, allowing for a truly seamless integration with other ironSource offerings.

“Today’s software developers and vendors need to be able to leverage every platform to distribute their applications to the right users,” said Sagi Bakshi, GM of installCore. “installCore was designed to ensure that developers can have their applications successfully installed by as many target users as possible, and now they are better equipped to do so.

” ironSource connects developers with target users across every platform and device, handling the distribution, delivery and monetization of web, desktop and mobile applications so that developers can focus on developing. The company currently enables over 5 million installs per day, and is set to take an even greater market share with this latest development.

As one of ironSource’s four central cores, installCore assures a superlative install success rate, an attractive and customizable UX that appeals to end users. After four years of success with the Windows Installer, the Mac Installer was developed in just half a year, with the ironSource team leveraging their experience and resources in Windows to bring the same technical expertise and cutting-edge technology to Mac.

installCore clients track performance and gain valuable insight with real-time highly-sophisticated installation analytics and BI tools, incorporating performance data from both their Mac OS, and Windows OS traffic in a single dashboard.

Leading publishers such as SourceForge have started using the new installCore installer for Mac OS and are enjoying relatively high take rates.

“User experience is important to us, and we can trust installCore to provide our users with a smooth and successful installation experience – whether they use a PC or a Mac,” said Gaurav Kuchhal, Managing Director of SourceForge.

Outbrain, the world's largest content discovery platform, today announced the launch of its Amplify API, which enables marketers to programmatically manage and measure their content campaigns on the Outbrain platform. The Amplify API will empower marketers to seamlessly integrate their content and campaigns directly into Outbrain's network of leading media properties, reaching a worldwide audience of more than 561 million.

The Outbrain Amplify API will provide developers of all sizes open access to its platform, enabling marketers to scale the reach of their content through programmatic access to the most premium publishers in the world. This technology adds an automation layer to the creation, management and reporting of content campaigns; it also integrates the buying and measurement of Outbrain campaigns to the dashboards of leading media and technology companies who have joined Outbrain's global partner ecosystem.

Joint customers of Outbrain and its partners, such as Contently, now have a single solution for managing content creation and distribution. The companies view this as a clear differentiator and a milestone.

"This is a major signal of a maturing industry for leading technology and media companies to work together and drive innovation for their customers. We share Outbrain's vision to ensure that brands large and small benefit from more robust and complete content marketing solutions," said Joe Coleman, CEO of Contently. "When Outbrain opens the world's largest content marketplace for others to build upon, you're going to see efficiency and innovation take off, by everyone from global leaders to shrewd independent tacticians."

Through Outbrain's new Amplify API solution, programmatic buying becomes a reality for content marketing for the first time since it gained prominence as an effective way to connect with and grow engaged audiences. By establishing an open, developer-friendly platform, Outbrain will allow technology and media partners to build proprietary solutions for the placement of their content, manage bids in real time, and simultaneously track data from multiple media partners or clients. Outbrain campaigns will be purchased and measured from the dashboards of major buyers and agencies in the same way that many do for display, search and social media.

"When it comes to content marketing, creating and distributing content with efficiency has become a primary challenge. Customization, while crucial, is inherently inefficient," commented Shafqat Islam, CEO of Newscred. "Now that programmatic has entered the content marketer's world, I believe that it will drive adoption by a new wave of digital marketers who are primed to take advantage of it."

"The content marketing industry is continually expanding and fragmenting, which makes it difficult for marketers to find comprehensive solutions," added Gilad deVries, SVP Product & Strategy at Outbrain. "We listened to our audience and opened up our platform to address this. Our new proprietary technology will not only make marketers more effective and therefore successful, but will also help to drive the continued and explosive growth seen in our industry."

In July, Outbrain launched a strategic partnership with Newscred, ushering in a new way for marketers to reach relevant audiences authentically, simply and at scale. Outbrain continues to make considerable technological and commercial advancements enabling marketers to move one step closer to a turnkey approach to content marketing.

Outbrain (http://www.outbrain.com/) is the world's largest content discovery platform, bringing personalised, relevant online, mobile and video content to audiences while helping publishers understand their audiences through data. Outbrain serves over 190 billion personalized content recommendations every month and reaches over 561 million unique visitors from across the globe.

Outbrain's expansion to some of the web's largest global properties is a reflection of its rapid growth and its successful innovations in supporting a new era of digital publishing. Top-tier premium publications that currently leverage the Outbrain platform include: CNN, ESPN, Le Monde, Fox News, The Guardian, Slate, The Telegraph, New York Post, Times of India and Sky News.

Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York with a presence in a growing number of locations globally, including the U.S., U.K., Israel, Singapore, Japan and Australia.

LiveU, the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, has partnered with the NFL's New York Jets to provide the team's live video technology solution. LiveU's LU500 video transmission backpack allows the NY Jets digital media team to transmit live video from any location directly to the team's website (www.newyorkjets.com), mobile app and post-production facility. Currently, with the use of LiveU's technology, fans can tune in for live coverage of the team's pre and postgame shows, as well as selected press conferences and special team events throughout the week.

The NY Jets digital media team began utilizing the LU500 in the 2014 preseason to support the team's training camp programming. After the successful debut of the first unit, the team quickly decided it needed a second LU500 field unit in order to capture all the unique live footage fans crave. Throughout the 2014 season, the NY Jets are able to stream live video from any spot, both at home and on the road, including from the side-line, locker room, stadium tunnels, team hotels and buses, practice facilities, and much more. The LU500 can be fully controlled and managed via LiveU Central, a cloud-based management system for a one-stop destination to control, monitor, and manage all LiveU units, servers, and apps.

"LiveU technology is a game-changer when it comes to fans and content consumption," said Seth Rabinowitz, Jets SVP of Marketing and Fan Engagement, "With LiveU, we are able to provide our fans with considerably more real-time content so they can hear directly from the team in a timely, unfiltered way".

"We are very happy to see the Jets leveraging our technology", said Ken Zamkow, VP Marketing - Americas, LiveU, "With extensive presence in both professional and college sports, LiveU is the gold standard for live video transmission. Whether for game-related content, faster posting of video clips, or even full varsity games, the technology has become an inseparable part of sports production".

About LiveU

LiveU (www.liveu.tv) is the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions are being used for breaking news and high-profile events, such as the FIFA World Cup™, Winter and Summer Olympic Games, US Presidential Campaign, Royal Baby, Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowls and US Collegiate Championships. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.

NEW YORK & LONDON – November 18, 2014 — Time Inc., one of the world’s leading media companies and Outbrain Inc., the world’s largest content discovery platform, announced today the details of an exclusive multi-year agreement that will see Time Inc. enhance its digital strategy by deploying the full suite of Outbrain’s solutions for seamlessly surfacing content that is relevant to audiences across its global portfolio. The partnership is expected to generate more than $100 million for Time Inc. over the course of the agreement.

This partnership highlights the inherent value and reach of Time Inc.’s ultra-premium network for marketers. With leading content brands such as People, Time, Sports Illustrated, InStyle and Real Simple, Time Inc. delivers valued content within brand-safe environments to a highly engaged and desirable audience. Time Inc. has experienced significant digital growth over the past year and currently boasts more than six billion page views per quarter and 131 million unique users per month, globally. The company has increased its video streams more than 200 percent year over year.

Following seven years of innovation on behalf of its partners, Outbrain has broadened its technology into a multifaceted platform to drive a new era of digital publishing. This full stack software solution empowers an entire media organization to more effectively manage its brands’ online content and programming experience. Outbrain will provide Time Inc. with tools that marry editorial decision-making with predictive analytics and algorithmically-generated content recommendations. Time Inc. will also leverage Outbrain’s premium publisher network to drive incremental engaged audiences to its digital properties.

Time Inc. Chairman and CEO, Joe Ripp said: “Our success has always been based on unique relationships with audiences. This provides marketers with an ideal environment to deliver their messaging. Today, we are connecting with consumers across every conceivable platform, serving them content that is relevant and engaging. Outbrain’s focus on audience experience and surfacing optimized content recommendations was a key to launching this partnership. It maximizes the monetization of our audience to other content publishers. And, it provides key insights and analytics about our core digital users.”

Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain said: “We are delighted to announce our agreement with Time Inc. and believe that smart and innovative companies like it are the lifeblood of the new look digital media industry. Outbrain began as a straightforward recommendation product, but we have innovated, adapted and evolved into a platform that serves multiple publisher constituencies—the business, editorial and product teams—affording our partners the flexibility to embrace digital opportunities and continue to deliver what audiences crave.”

Outbrain continues to build on its strong growth trajectory and incredible momentum and now has offices in more than 11 global territories and partners with publishers and marketers in over 55 countries, including the U.S., UK, France, Japan, India and Brazil. Worldwide, it now serves over 190 billion recommendations per month to consumers in over 150 countries—with more than 561 million unique users in September 2014 according to comScore.

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RealMatch, the leader in performance-based recruitment advertising, is pleased to announce that Jonathan Bulkeley has been appointed as CEO. Mr. Bulkeley, a 25 year internet industry veteran, brings a wealth of experience in management, investing, and corporate governance to RealMatch at a time when the company is experiencing rapid growth and disrupting the $19 billion online recruitment industry.

"I am honored to have been asked to take this role, and look forward to building on the strengths, momentum, and rapid growth that the company has already established," said Jonathan Bulkeley. "RealMatch is well positioned to dominate the lucrative online recruitment market with its innovative technology, and I am excited to work with founder, Gal Almog, the Board and the RealMatch team as the company executes on its expansion strategy.

" Mr. Bulkeley has deep operational expertise building and capitalizing digital businesses. During his long career, he has overseen $1.5B+ in digital revenue growth in a variety of capacities. Prior to joining RealMatch, Mr. Bulkeley was the founder and CIO of Blue Square Capital Management, a hedge fund focusing on small and micro cap global digital media companies. Prior to Blue Square, Mr. Bulkeley held executive leadership roles including CEO of Scanbuy, Inc. a global leader in visual navigation for the wireless industry, CEO of BarnesandNoble.com where he led the company to the 2nd largest Internet IPO at the time, Managing Director of AOL's UK JV with Bertelsmann, and other senior roles at America Online, Inc. In addition, Mr. Bulkeley sits on numerous boards in the high-tech, information, and financial services industries.

Gal Almog, the company's founder who has served as CEO since 2007, will become RealMatch's President and relocate to Israel to oversee the company's R &D center and lead product development. Mr. Almog will also focus on strategy and vision in support of the company's expansion and to maintain its leadership in recruitment technology innovation.

"We are excited to be joined by Jonathan Bulkeley who brings deep experience in digital publishing and online advertising. Jonathan's successful track record in leading companies through hyper growth is what RealMatch needs now as it strives to become a global leader in the recruitment advertising industry," said Mr. Almog.

About RealMatch:

RealMatch was built on the idea of revolutionizing the online recruitment advertising industry by matching today's talent pool with all job opportunities in the most efficient and effective manner. RealMatch's strategy is based on partnerships with digital publishers, to better monetize their communities with recruitment advertising. Unlike traditional job board technology, RealMatch solutions are built to perform. With targeted distribution across the largest talent marketplace in North America and industry leading job matching technology – online publishers return high performing job ads with better quality candidates, on their sites and under their brand. To learn more visit www.realmatch.com. - See more at: http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/11/17/683883/10108614/en/RealMatch-Names-Jonathan-Bulkeley-as-CEO.html#sthash.SoiN1v9v.dpuf

TradAir, the leading provider of front office visualization and optimization solutions, announces the release of the new TradAir Dynamic HTML5 front end and patented TradAir TouchPad offerings, providing customers with extensive personalization options not previously available in this market.

TradAir has been at the forefront of HTML5 development, and now extends these capabilities to clients, allowing them to directly personalize the interface. The new release also allows for the incorporation of proprietary and third party applications and algorithms, while leveraging TradAir’s highly sophisticated visualization and 3D analytics. Using TradAir web style sheet templates, clients can deliver their applications, data and their brand to their customers via state of the art technology. This enables them to easily personalize the product far beyond logo and coloring to promote their unique style and character. The personalization benefits can be extended to other products and services and other asset classes. By using the Dynamic HTML front end, clients can also capture and analyze their trading data.

“TradAir’s solution represents the next generation of white labelling. Our solution provides the cost, technical and time-to-market benefits of an outsourced model, while incorporating specific internal personalization benefits, so that our clients can deliver truly unique and technologically advanced solutions to their own clients,” says Illit Geller, TradAir’s CEO.

Using HTML 5 reduces the operational investment and headache required to maintain and support complex trading technology, and delivers substantial savings in terms of investment and support. The ease of installation and upgrade coupled with access across device and screen size significantly improves the overall client experience.

TradAir has combined these visualization tools with TradAir TouchPad , TradAir’s patented “touch and trade” technology, replacing and enhancing the traditional trading keypad. TradAir TouchPad works on its own or in conjunction with a full monitor, streamlining workflow and order entry.

Ayal Jedeikin, TradAir’s COO and Head of Product adds: “Our integrated TouchPad improves upon keypad, keyboard and mouse based trading, allowing our clients to not only take advantage of great visualization but advancements in hardware. Our patented implementation and design, ensure this is done securely and efficiently. ”

The TradAir solution is modular, and seamlessly integrates with existing components, providing the highest level of customization, flexibility and time to market.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RealMatch, the leader in performance-based recruitment advertising, announced today it has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America.

RealMatch grew 701% percent during 2009 to 2013 and ranks 11th within the Tri-State area, 79th in the Software Category and in the top 30% overall at 153 of the Deloitte Fast 500™. "RealMatch's place in the Deloitte's Fast 500 is a testament to our innovative and disruptive business model. We are rapidly changing the landscape of the $19 billion online recruitment advertising industry and setting the new standards in online recruitment with our innovative technology," said Gal Almog, RealMatch founder and CEO. "As we continue our accelerated growth trajectory, we remain focused on building the largest and most efficient talent marketplace in conjunction with our online publisher partners and the communities they serve." "The companies ranked on the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 continue to set the bar for their industry higher each year," said Eric Openshaw, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. "There are so many exciting products and smart thought leaders driving this list. We congratulate the Fast 500 companies and look forward to seeing them continue their momentum into 2015." Overall, 2014 Technology Fast 500™ companies achieved revenue growth ranging from 135 percent to 123,678 percent from 2009 to 2013, with an average growth of 1,640 percent. "For 20 years, the Deloitte Fast 500 rankings have honored the innovation that is part of these companies' DNA," added Jim Atwell, national managing partner of the emerging growth company practice, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "We're glad to be serving these high-growth companies, and helping the technology sector recognize the great strides and transformation these companies are making in their respective areas."

About RealMatch RealMatch was built on the idea of revolutionizing the online recruitment advertising industry by matching today's talent pool with all job opportunities in the most efficient and effective manner. RealMatch's strategy is based on partnerships with digital publishers, to better monetize their communities with recruitment advertising. Unlike traditional job board technology, RealMatch solutions are built to perform. With targeted distribution across the largest talent marketplace in North America and industry leading job matching technology – online publishers return high performing job ads with better quality candidates, on their sites and under their brand. To learn more visit www.realmatch.com.

About Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500™ Technology Fast 500, conducted by Deloitte LLP, provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies – both public and private – in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2009 to 2013. In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company's operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or CD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of five years and be headquartered within North America.

The Community, made up of LiveU customers, increases broadcasters' news coverage capabilities with minimal effort and expense

LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, today launched the LiveU Community platform (http://www.liveu.tv/community), a cloud-based network connecting freelancers, production houses and other service providers with hundreds of top broadcasters around the world. Using its own management technology, LiveU has created an online news exchange platform, making it simpler and cheaper for LiveU customers to offer or request newsgathering services for breaking news and events anywhere, at any time.

LiveU Community is a reflection of LiveU's strategy to offer value-added services to its customers, enabled by its cloud-based central management platform, LiveU Central. Once the connection is made between the broadcaster and the service provider, the content can be transmitted and managed centrally.

With the LiveU Community, LiveU uplink devices can transmit to any LiveU server, essentially allowing the broadcaster to use any service provider's unit as one of their own. Leveraging the massive deployment of LiveU units and servers around the world, LiveU Community enables LiveU broadcasters to find LiveU-equipped professionals in any geographic location and create unique content at a significantly reduced cost, and much faster, than sending their own news crew or using satellite or microwave equipment.

Samuel Wasserman, LiveU's CEO, said, "Using our technology, we're proud to have created an effective platform with hundreds of customers that serves as a bridge between broadcasters and the freelance video community. The LiveU Community platform is a real innovation in its field, opening a whole range of options for our customers to connect to one another and acquire valuable content when they need it. We've had great feedback so far with new members signing up every day."

"The LiveU Community opens a whole new door for potential clients. Providing live content as a freelancer is so much easier and affordable with LiveU technology and the Community gives us the platform to access the largest broadcasters," said Terje Ness, Press Photographer, Ness Multimedia AS.

Wasserman continued, "It's a win-win solution for the industry. Broadcasters can obtain content that financially or logistically would have been prohibitive, and freelancers and service providers have greater access to the world's media. LiveU Community reflects our long-term strategy to enhance our offering with new value-added services."

LiveU owns the patent for cellular bonding for remote news gathering in the US and other countries. All LiveU products are based on this fourth-generation patented technology.

About LiveU

LiveU (www.liveu.tv) is the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions are being used for breaking news and high-profile events, such as the FIFA World Cup™, Winter and Summer Olympic Games, US Presidential Campaign, Royal Baby, Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowls and US Collegiate Championships. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.

Major upgrade to FraudView introduces advanced proactive and predictive tools

London, UK , November 06, 2014

cVidya, a leading provider of Revenue Analytics solutions for digital and communications service providers (CSPs), today released a major new version of its market-leading Fraud Management solution. Equipped with advanced detection tools, the latest version of FraudView will significantly reduce the time it takes for service providers to investigate fraud and limit their financial exposure, improving efficiency and enhancing business performance.

Encapsulating cVidya’s extensive Fraud Management experience and expertise, FraudView now proactively retrieves and presents analysts with relevant information and meaningful insights, enabling service providers to detect and prevent fraud quickly and accurately. Fully compatible with the Hadoop big data framework, the new version of FraudView also proactively highlights suspicious patterns in historic data related to the investigated entity. Furthermore, an intuitive new user interface streamlines the investigative process by enabling analysts to collect pieces of evidence in an e-commerce-style shopping cart.

To help business leaders gauge the impact of criminal activities, this new version of FraudView also introduces tools and dashboards that provide key business insights, such as the service provider’s financial exposure and the monetary implications of specific attacks and counter measures. The solution can be accessed from any device with a web browser, enabling a CFO, for example, to check specific dashboards on a tablet at an airport.

“Our smart new version of FraudView puts cVidya’s in-depth Fraud Management experience and know-how – acquired serving more than 80 operators worldwide - at the full disposal of our customers, ” said Alon Aginsky, President and CEO of cVidya. “Our advanced algorithms ensure that business leaders and fraud analysts have the information they need at their fingertips, enabling them to move swiftly and decisively to safeguard their business.”

True Value, Sodexo and Top Three Retailer Choose Clarizen's Enterprise Work Collaboration Solution

October 30, 2014 --

SAN MATEO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/30/14 -- Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, announced significant growth across all geographies in the third quarter -- including customer wins with True Value, Sodexo and one of the top three discount retailers in the US. Other Q3 highlights include being named in JMP Securities' Hot 100 Software Companies list and the introduction of Clarizen's 2014 Summer Release, which contained new visualization, communication and usability enhancements.

Several large deployments of social licenses in Q3 demonstrated customer adoption of Clarizen's vision of the Work Graph, enabling companies to go from ideation to execution in a single tool. Average deal value per customer more than doubled, demonstrating larger deployments and adoption of Clarizen as the preferred work collaboration platform for the enterprise. In fact, the enterprise segment is the fastest growing customer segment for the company.

"I am delighted to report that we blew away our Q3 number and nearly doubled revenues in the Americas," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO of Clarizen. "This is a testament to customers' enthusiasm for our enterprise work collaboration solutions, especially given that Q3 is typically slow for most enterprise software companies. None of this would have happened without our customers' belief in the power of enterprise work collaboration and the dramatic impact it can have on their operations."

Other Q3 highlights:

Clarizen was named to the JMP Securities Hot 100 Software Companies list for 2014. The report highlights the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software equity research team at JMP Securities, a full-service San Francisco-based investment bank.

The 2014 Summer Release delivered visualization, communication and usability enhancements to the award-winning Clarizen v6 platform. The newest features, many of which were requested by customers, further streamline work to help deliver bottom-line business results.

The Work GraphThe way most companies work is broken. First we build work groups, and then we engage in conversations, which may become actions and, ideally, these actions become deliverables. Each of these typically live in disconnected "islands" of activity, managed by different systems. Clarizen is different in that it connects these islands into a "work graph" that is organically created through the act of getting work done. The work graph enables collaboration that drives results, turning every organization into a high-performance, real-time operation.

About Clarizen Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,300 organizations across 76 countries, including dozens of the Fortune 500. Most recently, Gigaom Research rated Clarizen at the top in its Sector RoadMap: process based collaboration in 2014 report. Founded in 2006, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.

Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

New Fund to Continue Carmel Strategy of Backing Visionary Israeli Entrepreneurs
Focused on Building Leading Global Technology Companies

Tel
Aviv, October 22, 2014. Carmel Ventures, a leading Israeli
venture capital firm and a member of the Viola Group, today announced the final
closing of its latest investment fund, Carmel Ventures IV (“Fund IV”), with
total commitments of $194 million. Fund IV, like its predecessor funds, will be
invested in early-stage transformative technology companies in high growth sectors
that include enterprise software, data center infrastructure, big data, cyber
security, FinTech, digital media and consumer applications.

Carmel began investing out of the new fund in January 2014 and has made investments
in PlayBuzz, LuckyFish and three other promising early
stage technology companies.

Fund
IV was raised with equity commitments from global institutional investors that
include a significant number of return investors as well as selected new
investors. In addition, several leading Asian strategic investors have joined
the new fund including Baidu, Ping-An, and Qihoo360 amongst others. Fund IV is led by six
partners; Shlomo Dovrat, Avi Zeevi, Ori Bendori, Ronen Nir, Daniel Cohen and
Itzik Avidor. As in previous funds, Fund IV includes a significant equity
investment by Carmel’s General Partners and affiliates.

“Technology entrepreneurs and the venture
industry in Israel have become more focused on building significant companies. Carmel has been at the forefront of these developments
and is involved with several world class companies coming out of Israel,” said Kathryn Mayne, Managing Director of Horsley Bridge
Partners. “We value our strong relationship with Carmel Ventures and are
pleased to continue our successful partnership with them in Fund IV.”

“We are delighted to be making our
first investment in an Israeli Venture fund with Carmel Ventures,” said Daniel Tu, Group Chief Innovation Officer at Ping An Group
of China.
“Carmel offers us reliable access to Israeli innovation and we look
forward to partnering with them.”

“Building global, significant Israeli technology companies is what we’re
passionate about at Carmel," said Shlomo Dovrat, Co-Founder and
General Partner at Carmel Ventures. “We are committed to backing visionary
Israeli entrepreneurs who aspire to transform industries and markets on a
global scale, and build world class companies. We hope to back those teams
early on and be helpful to them as they scale up. We are fortunate to work with
many exceptional entrepreneurial teams; companies such as ironSource, Outbrain
and Payoneer are transforming entire industries, generating significant
revenues and have become global leaders.”

Today, Carmel Ventures manages over $800 million of investor capital and
is invested in 35 active companies.

About Carmel Ventures:

With over $800 million currently
under management, several successful exits, and a growing portfolio of
promising companies, Carmel is among Israel’s top-tier venture capital funds.
Founded in 2000 by pioneers and leaders of the Israeli high tech industry, Carmel
provides significant capital and active support through the growth cycle of its
portfolio companies and is recognized as a true company building fund in
Israel.

Carmel is a member of the Viola Group,
Israel’s premier technology-focused PE group with over $2B under management. For
more information, visit www.carmelventures.com.

Perfecto Mobile, the leader in mobile app quality, today announced the best quarter in the company’s eight-year history – with the acquisition of over 110 new customers, unprecedented sales volume and dramatic increases to its job rolls.

"Perfecto Mobile continues to lead the way in the multibillion dollar mobile app quality market. The company provides a highly scalable, proven solution to customers trying to adapt to the constantly changing mobile market,” said Liron Gitig, FTV Capital partner. “The continued strong company growth and blue chip customer acquisition reinforces our decision to invest in Perfecto Mobile.”

Perfecto Mobile signed over 110 new customers within the past three months, and currently hosts a customer base that includes 1,500 organizations across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries, including the top names in Fortune 100/500.

In the past year alone, the company doubled its workforce and opened a sixth business office in Germany. The company is looking to continue its growth next quarter by adding more than 20 positions across the organization before the end of the year.

Perfecto Mobile also generated significant momentum in its partner channel. It now has 75 partners including technology leaders, prominent Global System Integrators, and emerging growth partners. New partners recently added include CloudBees, Neotys, Automation Consultants and FDS Networks.

Perfecto Mobile executives attributed the company’s continued growth to the increased importance of integrating testing earlier in today’s enterprise environments. Perfecto Mobile ensures the quality of applications and improves the time to market for enterprise customers.

“Enterprises need to accelerate their development lifecycles without compromising on the quality of their applications,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO of Perfecto Mobile. “Perfecto Mobile is the proven leader for mobile app quality because we enable Dev/Test teams to adopt an agile methodology and meet this shift in the market. Our mission has always been to provide our customers with the best technology to deliver quality apps that exceed end users’ expectations. Our continued growth is a reflection of meeting the mission of superior end user engagement and providing a solution that matches the demand in the market.”

Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, enabling them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile’s cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile app quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.

More than 1,500 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.

TEL AVIV & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Personetics, a provider of online Personalized Guidance solutions to the global consumer banking industry, announced today that one of its customers, the First International Bank of Israel (FIBI), is the first bank to deploy a holistic, personalized guidance solution covering both Investments and banking relationships.

“By building the most advanced predictive analytics available right into FIBI’s digital channels, we’re able to help their customers make better financial decisions across their banking and investment portfolios”

“By building the most advanced predictive analytics available right into FIBI’s digital channels, we’re able to help their customers make better financial decisions across their banking and investment portfolios,” said David Sosna, CEO of Personetics. “We’re very excited by this deployment, which is the first time we’ve provided guidance that covers the entire product and service relationship with the customer.

According to Ella Golan, Head of banking division and executive vice president at First International Bank: “Our view of the service is that it’s an innovative, new approach that enables us to better guide and help our customers. Personalized guidance isn’t another sales tool. Rather, it’s a smart personal assistant that learns what the customer needs and adapts accordingly.”

FIBI and its subsidiaries are utilizing Personetics’ flagship Smart Assistant® solution, which draws from customers’ banking transactions, credit card activity, investment portfolios and other data to provide relevant insights across banking and investment accounts. By incorporating Personetics Smart Assistant technology, customers using FIBI’s online website will receive prompts that engage them across a broad range of important topics. These might include alerting a customer to recent activity with new merchants, highlighting a portfolio change, or providing useful tips -- such as how to avoid foreign exchange fees when traveling.

How does it work? Each time a FIBI customer logs in, the new service will analyze that customer’s activities across all their accounts and holdings, and then present a simple view of the most relevant, useful and timely insights. To achieve this, the technology deploys highly sophisticated predictive analytics and relevancy scoring. The solution performs to up-to-date (real-time) analysis of both banking and portfolio-related activity and uses a proprietary learning and prioritization algorithm to tailor the response to specific customer needs.

About Personetics

Recently named by Gartner as a 2014 “Cool Vendor” and by the American Banker/BTN as a “Top 10 FinTech Company to Watch”, Personetics (www.personetics.com) is a leading provider of personalized customer guidance solutions for the financial services industry. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Carmel Ventures, the company has offices in New York, London and Tel Aviv.

About First International Bank of Israel

FIBI is among Israel’s five largest banking groups and a leading player in capital markets activities. With assets of over NIS 100 billion ($30 Billion) FIBI serves both market professionals and private customers via a branch network of over 180 branches, dealing rooms, specialized investment advice centers and digital channels.

Contacts

From small shops Ready Set Rocket and SundaySky to powerhouses like AOL and BuzzFeed, awards honor outstanding workplaces driving New York City’s vibrant tech-based economies; Companies to be honored at November 20th luncheon.

Internet Week today unveiled its first-ever list of the 30 Best Places to Work in New York City Tech, honoring the top companies whose workplace cultures and policies are helping to drive the city’s vibrant tech-based economy.

The 30 companies on the list, which range in size from two dozen employees to more than 3,500, were selected based on a range of criteria including hiring practices, benefits packages, salaries, office perks, workplace environment and design, and diversity policies, as well as surveys completed by more than 2,000 employees at the 30 companies.

The companies recognized as the 30 Best Places to Work in NYC Tech are:

Honorees will be celebrated at the Best Places to Work in New York City Tech Luncheon on November 20th in the Great Room at The W Hotel in Union Square. The company receiving the highest overall score will receive a special award and a $2,500 gift certificate from Internet Week partner Design Within Reach. Special awards will also be presented to companies that excelled in areas such as Happiest Employees, Best Perks, Best Work/Life Balance, Best Workplace Culture, Best Small Company and Best Large Company.

The 30 Best Places to Work in New York City Tech is presented in partnership with CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, and submissions were evaluated by Internet Week research partner Buck Consultants LLC. To be eligible for the competition, companies must have a minimum of 20 employees working full-time in a New York office.

"New York City has become one of the world’s top tech cities, where companies are investing in both smart ideas and great workplaces to draw outstanding talent and foster extraordinary performance," said Allison Arden, Managing Director of Internet Week. "Internet Week's Best Places to Work in NY Tech list recognizes the companies setting the standard for creating cultures that allow successful companies and outstanding talent to thrive in one of the most dynamic and exciting tech communities in the world.”

“New York’s tech community is a driving force in transforming the look, feel and function of the workplace,” said Kyle Schoppmann, Head of Occupier Services for CBRE’s Tri-State Region. “CBRE is excited to recognize the industry’s leaders, along with Internet Week—and we look forward to collaborating with the tech community as their needs evolve.”

Internet Week New York 2015 will take place May 18-24. More than 45,000 people are expected to attend more than 250 panels, exhibits, screenings and parties at the Internet Week New York HQ, the nerve center of the festival at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion, and at venues across the city.

Earlier this year, Internet Week and CBRE partnered to launch "The NYC Edition of Internet Week Tech Digs," an original web series exploring the workplaces of some of the top digital companies driving New York City’s tech-based economy.

About Internet Week Internet Week supports New York’s vibrant tech-based economy and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit and global impact of technology on business, entertainment and culture. The festival highlights the innovators building the new economy and creating opportunity, while educating and empowering attendees to succeed. Internet Week New York is every week, and the festival is part of an always-on movement in support of the tech community and the industries so important to global competitiveness.

About CBRE CBRE Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. The company has approximately 44,000 employees, and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through approximately 350 offices worldwide. In New York, CBRE has been the leader in commercial real estate for more than a quarter century, providing a comprehensive delivery platform that has become an industry benchmark. A culture of collaboration empowers our people—and our clients—with the information they need to anticipate market opportunities, gain the competitive edge and implement the best real estate strategies possible. CBRE serves the needs of technology clients in New York through industry-specific market intelligence, insight into tech companies’ unique occupancy requirements and strong advisory experience based on years of experience with some of the most outstanding names in tech. http://www.cbre.us

Major health plan provider leverages the power of a unified ITSM platform.

Cary, NC (PRWEB) October 14, 2014

Samanage, provider of the only multi-tenant service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market, announced today that FirstCare Health Plans has selected Samanage’s unified platform of IT service desk and asset management solutions.

FirstCare Health Plans, provider of high quality and affordable health care plans throughout West Texas, was using Samanage IT Asset Management for easy insight into all of the systems on their network, when the time came to evaluate alternatives for IT service management (ITSM). “Our contract for our ITSM solution was coming up for renewal and we decided we needed a change based on many factors, but primarily cost,” said Brian Moore, Lead, Desktop Support with FirstCare Health Plans.

The key criteria for the new ITSM solution required it follow general ITIL guidelines for incident management, problem management, change management, release management, service catalog and asset management. FirstCare also required quick implementation and a simple user interface so other functional areas could leverage the solution to manage service delivery. And finally, an ITSM solution needed to be offered at a good price point. FirstCare’s research for an ITSM solution led them to a Forrester report, “Forrester Market Overview: SaaS IT Service Management Tools, 2013”.

In addition to Samanage, FirstCare evaluated SysAid, BMC Remedyforce, and Easy Vista for its ITSM needs. “The Forrester report validated that Samanage was a real contender in the marketplace for an ITSM solution in addition to the asset management we were already using,” said Moore. After several demos and test driving the solution, FirstCare chose to expand their use of Samanage into the service desk product.

“We are privileged to have FirstCare Health Plans as part of the growing Samanage customer community,” said Doron Gordon, CEO of Samanage. “FirstCare’s mission includes providing quality, affordable health plans and to always put the customer first. We share the same philosophy at Samanage as a business that adds value and innovation to our customers through IT service management solutions every day. We look forward to partnering with FirstCare to help them achieve their mission,” said Gordon.

Feedback from internal FirstCare IT customers has been positive. “Our customers tell us the Samanage tool is a lot simpler, cleaner and has a more friendly user interface than our previous tool,” said Moore. The implementation of Samanage also met FirstCare expectations. “The implementation was as smooth and quick as the system itself is very straightforward and simple,” said Moore. “In fact, our challenge was adapting complicated processes to work properly in the new system because it was that simple to use.”

Moore also commented on the value of a true-cloud based solution such as Samanage. “More than anything else, the fact that the entire environment is hosted and the provider is responsible for the upkeep is of great value,” said Moore. “However at the top of our list when looking at cloud solutions is the ability to ensure our data remains secure according to our strict compliance standards that we must abide by, and we are confident in Samanage.”

About Samanage Samanage provides the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market today. Our revolutionary user interface delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust IT Service Management (ITSM) solution in only 14 days. We are uniquely able to deliver both simplicity and strength to customers in the form of instant value, user-friendly functionality, and feature-rich and “future-proof” capabilities. Our goal is to help customers deliver a superior service experience to their end users, and real value throughout their organization by improving asset control, empowering end users, and maximizing resources. Learn more at: http://www.samanage.com.

Hosted by the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA), the NC Tech Awards are North Carolina’s only statewide technology awards program, recognizing outstanding achievement in technology.

“We are honored to be recognized by NCTA as a finalist for the fast growth, small company award,” said Doron Gordon, Samanage CEO. “In fiscal year 2013, Samanage experienced record revenue growth as demand for our easy-to-use SaaS Service Desk and IT Asset Management software tripled over years past. Overall revenues increased 250% from the previous year and we doubled our global customer base.”

“Since 1995, the NC Tech Awards (formerly the NCTA 21 Awards) have honored companies for outstanding achievement in the tech sector and use of technology. As a finalist in this year’s awards, Samanage has distinguished itself as one of the state’s technology leaders,” stated Brooks Raiford, NCTA’s President and CEO.

A review committee comprised of non-profit, media, education, and technology leaders representing various regions of the state selected this year’s finalists. The awards process culminates with the NC Tech Awards Gala on November 6, 2014 at the Raleigh Convention Center.

About NCTA The North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) is a not-for-profit, membership-driven trade association and the primary voice of the technology industry in North Carolina. NCTA is the intersection of leadership and technology, fueling the growth of North Carolina through Executive Engagement, Public Affairs, and a Knowledge Workforce. For more information, visit our website at http://www.nctechnology.org.

About Samanage Samanage provides the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market today. Our revolutionary user interface delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust IT Service Management (ITSM) solution in only 14 days. We are uniquely able to deliver both simplicity and strength to customers in the form of instant value, user-friendly functionality, and feature-rich and “future-proof” capabilities. Our goal is to help customers deliver a superior service experience to their end users, and real value throughout their organization by improving asset control, empowering end users, and maximizing resources. Learn more at: http://www.samanage.com.

Reduxio is a World Leader in Storage Innovation with Next Generation Hybrid Storage Systems; Funding to Accelerate Market Entry

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Oct 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Reduxio Systems, the next-generation hyper-efficient hybrid storage innovator, announced today that it has closed a $15 million Series B funding, led by Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in storage solutions, and joined by existing investors Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Carmel Ventures and Intel Capital. This comes just one year after last year’s round of $12 million.The funds will accelerate Reduxio’s product development and support its go-to-market plan. In conjunction with this investment, Seagate will obtain a seat on the Reduxio Board of Directors.

“We are very excited to close this funding round,” said Mark Weiner, Chief Executive Officer, Reduxio Systems. “We are thrilled to have Seagate as an investor. Seagate has the know-how and the passion that has allowed them to continue to be the leader in the storage industry. Seagate’s investment validates our innovative architecture and our execution to date, and will help us to bring our products to customers earlier.”

“This investment underscores our continued commitment to further strengthen our position as a storage solutions leader from components to systems to services,” said Rocky Pimentel, President of Global Markets and Customers at Seagate. “Reduxio has built an architecture that can truly leverage the capabilities of hard disk drives, solid state storage, and future non-volatile technologies together in a single system. We believe that systems that successfully integrate multiple media types can deliver compelling price/performance and reliability benefits and will have a unique position in the market.”

“Reduxio was created with the vision that the rapidly evolving enterprise storage space needs a new disruptive architecture.” said Kobi Rozengarten, Chairman of Reduxio and General Partner at JVP. “In just two years, Reduxio’s team has proven its ability to provide the most advanced solutions to this rapidly growing space.”

Samanage, provider of the only multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market, announced today a number of new product enhancements to its solution including real time notifications, more collaboration with multiple approvers, and more.

The latest updates continue to allow for a better service desk experience, better collaboration among IT team members and a higher level of end user customer service provided through Samanage.

Since May 2014, Samanage has delivered more than 330 deploys to production that were instantly available for the entire customer base. Samanage’s agile business model and true-cloud platform uniquely positions them to deploy daily updates and quickly respond to customer requests via their active and engaged online community of users.

"The development team is very active in the community forum and respond quickly to suggestions,” said Boyd Tracy, Manager of Business Technology at eSource. I have been very impressed with the level of dialog between the developers and the users regarding improvements to the tool."

Some of the key highlights in the last three months include:

Real-time notification – in-app real-time notifications of service related events, just like Google or Linkedin, helps save time in resolving service requests and improve users productivity.

Recurring catalog requests – easily schedule recurring service requests and business workflows across the organization.

Reorder service catalog variables – new drag and drop usability makes it easier to create and edit service catalog items.

Samanage CEO, Doron Gordon, says that the company has always been built around the idea of agile development, and outstanding customer service.

“Our philosophy has always been to build beautiful software that people love to use,” said Gordon. “As a multi-tenant, true-cloud solution, all of our customers run on a single instance of the software which allows us to make product updates quickly and seamlessly with no downtime for upgrades. Samanage is unique in the marketplace in that it does not have versions or a lengthy release cycle. Unlike most IT service management platforms, the product is reviewed daily and any enhancements that are going to make life better for customers are made quickly.”

(Tel Aviv – 23rd September 2014), ironSource, the world’s leading digital delivery company, today announced an investment of approximately $85 million from a syndicate of strategic and institutional investors from the US, China and Europe. The funding will enable ironSource to further expand its international presence and offering, and drive adoption of its solution.

ironSource has developed a comprehensive platform to help developers improve digital discovery, delivery, distribution and monetization. The solution consists of four cores – mobileCore, installCore, displayCore and mediaCore – that connect software developers and users across devices.

ironSource has developed rapidly in a short period. The company currently handles over 5 million installs each day, and has over 50 thousand applications utilizing the mobileCore SDK. The young company has increased from 30 employees to 450 in Tel Aviv, Beijing, San Francisco, and New York.

“ironSource has enjoyed amazing growth over the last three years, opening international offices, debuting our mobile solution, augmenting our team of employees, and increasing revenue,” said Tomer Bar-Zeev, CEO and Co-Founder.

In the last year ironSource has placed special emphasis on broadening its global presence, and in Q2 2014, ironSource opened an office in Beijing to strengthen ties with the Chinese market. ironSource’s worldwide distribution capabilities match perfectly with the strategic decision of Chinese internet giants to gain a global footprint and increase their presence outside of China.

“This latest investment from major Chinese investors is a testament to the value ironSource is already bringing to its Chinese partners, and more importantly, our ability to help major Chinese internet players to succeed in a global market,” said Bar Zeev. “China is one of today’s most exciting internet and application markets, and we’re looking forward to strengthening our presence there and fostering ties between Tel Aviv and Beijing.”

About ironSource World leading digital distribution company ironSource offers a comprehensive platform to help developers improve digital discovery, delivery, distribution and monetization. The solution consists of four cores – installCore, mobileCore, displayCore and mediaCore. – that connect software developers and users across devices. Founded in 2009 with headquarters in Tel Aviv, ironSource has offices in San Francisco and Beijing. Please visit us at http://www.ironsrc.com.

BT Sport has worked with LiveU and Garland Partners to equip three Vauxhall Astras with the LU500 and Xtender remote antenna technology. Each LU500 backpack unit can be connected wirelessly (up to 1,000 ft/300 meters) or via Ethernet to the Xtender that sits on top of each vehicle. The combined power and signal robustness achieved, even in congested areas like sports stadiums, is unrivalled in the market and gives the broadcaster absolute confidence.

Andy Beale, Chief Engineer with BT Sport, said: "We now have a fleet-footed and effective way of allowing sports journalists to get the story back to us. We value the flexibility and speed of deployment of the LiveU solution."

The units can be accessed and controlled remotely via LiveU Central, the company's management platform that allows full control and monitoring of the LiveU units and content via any browser-supported computer or tablet, from anywhere around the world.

LiveU's LU500 has taken the cellular bonding market by storm with its next-generation technical strength and outright performance in the field. Weighing around 1 kg (2.2 lbs), this small-sized unit is powered by LiveU's new multi-processor video encoding engine and fourth-generation patented bonding algorithms providing previously unseen levels of signal robustness in an easy-to-carry unit.

The level of video quality and reliability delivered by LiveU's technology has brought cellular uplinking into the mainstream of sports coverage, adopted by sports networks, organisations and teams worldwide, most notably in the US and Europe, for high-profile sports events.

Samuel Wasserman, LiveU's CEO, said, "We're very excited to be working with BT Sport on such an innovative and exciting project. From the outset, cellular bonding technology has been used across the sports broadcasting universe to create a far more rounded and dynamic viewer experience. CNGs are growing in popularity around the world because of the advantages our cellular bonding technology offers. LiveU's LU500 was used extensively in this year's FIFA World Cup(TM) and Sochi Winter Olympics, often combined with Xtender technology, to bring otherwise impossible live footage to viewers everywhere."

LiveU owns the patent for cellular bonding for remote newsgathering in the US and other countries. All LiveU products are based on this fourth-generation patented technology.

About LiveU

LiveU (www.liveu.tv [http://www.liveu.tv/]) is the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions are being used for breaking news and high-profile events, such as the FIFA World Cup(TM), Winter and Summer Olympic Games, US Presidential Campaign, Royal Baby, Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowls and US Collegiate Championships. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.

Combines Panasonic’s professional camera solutions with LiveU’s bonding
technology and its cloud-based Central management system, the hub for video
ingestion

(Virtual
Press Office) -- Panasonic has announced an expansion of its strategic
collaboration with LiveU to introduce an end-to-end solution enabling P2HD
series camera recorders to connect directly to the LiveU Central system and its
cloud-based services for live transmission.

Upcoming releases of
Panasonic’s broadcasting camera recorders will support a direct connection with
LiveU Central, the unified management system which allows broadcasters to
acquire both live and recorded content from the field, preview it centrally or
remotely, broadcast it live or in scheduled programming and distribute it to any
location.

The system is in addition to the workflow where broadcasters
and content producers use a separate uplink unit to connect to the LiveU cloud
management platform. Panasonic and LiveU believe that utilising technology
similar to the LTE dongle on the Panasonic AJ-PX270 P2HD camera offers another
effective option for field operations, with minimal equipment and human
resources.

“Our ENG cameras have evolved so that we can now create high
quality video at low data rates using P2 AVC-ULTRA”, said Kunihiko Miyagi,
Director of Professional AV Business Unit. “By collaborating with LiveU we can
realise live transmission and file transfer on to a world renowned site, making
our customer’s workflow more efficient.”

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, is pleased to announce its support of iOS 8. Perfecto Mobile has seen increased alertness from its customers surrounding iOS 8 updates, and believes iOS 8 will yield the fastest adoption rates of any released iOS version so far.

“As the industry leader in mobile application quality, we are committed to delivering fast support for what Perfecto Mobile anticipates to be the most rapid adoption of any mobile OS so as to ensure the application lifecycle is neither stalled nor compromised.”

“The upgrade to iOS 7 and resulting changes to apps taught the industry about the impact Apple’s updates have on both the general consumer as well as the mobile application developer. Within two weeks of the iOS 7 announcement, the user adoption rate was at 60 percent and apps that did not support changes to the system reported major issues with usability, performance and availability,” said Roi Carmel, SVP of Product and Strategy at Perfecto Mobile. “As the industry leader in mobile application quality, we are committed to delivering fast support for what Perfecto Mobile anticipates to be the most rapid adoption of any mobile OS so as to ensure the application lifecycle is neither stalled nor compromised.”

It’s likely that changes to the OS will require greater device control during testing and greater flexibility of test environments. Developers and testers should make it a priority to review updates and changes from iOS 7 to iOS 8 due to the many changes that may affect testing environments and script maintenance. Based on news released by Apple, developers and testers should consider the following when testing apps on iOS 8:

Comprehensive coverage by testing on different form factors of iOS devices: A test environment must be flexible to support the addition of new devices and updates to operating systems. iPhone 6 brings two new screen sizes to the market, and UI testing is important to ensure apps are compatible with each screen size. It will be critical for mobile app developers to take their existing iOS 7 and iOS 6 applications that have not been configured for these formats and test them on existing beta versions as well as the upcoming GA version to assure all innovative features do not introduce regressions to the apps or compromise usability.

New capabilities introduce more complex use cases and testing scenarios: With a multitude of new APIs and enhanced notifications that change the behavior of apps, developers and testers must prepare greater device control during testing, which is likely to come in the form of springboard level control.

TouchID – Originally introduced in iOS 7, this new functionality is being extended through new APIs allowing mobile app developers to also enable mobile app users to log into their application using the TouchID function. Mobile app developers should consider the security tests needed for new applications running with this enhanced functionality and also ensure that they release proper apps relevant to the iPhone 4S/5.

For more information about Perfecto Mobile’s iOS 8 support and how you can achieve greater device control and improve the flexibility of your mobile app test environment, watch a webinar here.

About Perfecto Mobile

Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, enabling them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile’s cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile app quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.

More than 1,000 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.

The LU200 offers a very attractive price point and an easy-to-use solution for every broadcaster camera, integrated with LiveU’s cloud-based platform

LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, is unveiling its new ultra-small cellular bonding solution for global newsgathering compatible with any camera at IBC2014. The LU200 offers a very attractive price, performance and form-factor for live video transmission, expanding LiveU’s product portfolio for the broadcast market. The LU200 opens new live coverage opportunities, enabling every field camera to be equipped with a bonding uplink unit.

Samuel Wasserman, LiveU’s CEO, said, “With innovation as a part of our DNA, we’re proud to introduce the pocket-sized LU200 device. Listening to our customers, we quickly understood the need for a mini unit based on our industry-leading bonding technology. Standing in a category of its own in the broadcast market, LiveU has raised the bar again with a new device that enriches our portfolio and provides even more options for any broadcaster field camera.”

Weighing just over 500 grams, (1 lb), the LU200 is available in a pouch or camera-mount configuration, bringing two built-in modems with integrated powerful antennas in a bonded solution for any video professional. The flexible LU200 can also serve as a stand-alone video encoder with satellite integration functionality, or be used as a LiveU DataBridge mobile hotspot for all IP applications in the field.

“As we saw during the World Cup, where hundreds of LiveU devices were in action, cellular bonding is now firmly established in the mainstream broadcasting workflow”, Wasserman continued.

The LU200 supports two 4G LTE/3G modems together with Wi-FI and LAN connections and includes LiveU’s proprietary antenna modules for extra resiliency. The LU200 will be demonstrated at IBC2014 and become commercially available after the show.

The LU200 is the latest offering within LiveU’s multi-layered live video ecosystem and can be locally or remotely managed via LiveU Central, the unified management system for LiveU’s field-units. As the hub for video ingestion, LiveU Central allows broadcasters to acquire both live and recorded content from the field, preview it centrally or remotely, broadcast it live or in scheduled programming and distribute it to any location.

LiveU owns the patent for cellular bonding for remote news gathering in the US and other countries. All LiveU products are based on this fourth-generation patented technology.

About LiveU

LiveU (www.liveu.tv) is the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU’s solutions are being used for breaking news and high-profile events, such as the FIFA World Cup™, Winter and Summer Olympic Games, US Presidential Campaign, Royal Baby, Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowls and US Collegiate Championships. From backpacks to smartphones, and satellite/cellular hybrid to external antenna solutions, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU’s solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.

-- Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses send and receive cross-border payments, announced today that Hans Morris, managing partner at Nyca Partners, former president of Visa and longtime Citi executive, has joined the company's board of directors. Nyca Partners has also made a minority investment in Payoneer. Mr. Morris has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. He served as president of Visa while the company underwent its IPO, at the time the largest in U.S. history. Prior to his role at Visa, Morris spent over 20 years in senior roles at Citigroup, including CFO of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank. He also acted as managing director at global growth equity firm General Atlantic. Morris recently formed Nyca Partners, a venture capital and advisory firm that brings together New York banking expertise and Silicon Valley technology expertise. Morris' investment partners in Nyca include Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, and Osama Bedier, former head of Google Payments. Nyca Partners has invested in more than 10 financial technology companies, and Morris also serves on the board of Lending Club and Cardworks. "We are delighted to add an industry leader like Hans to Payoneer's board of directors and we're excited to have Nyca as an investor," said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. "Hans shares Payoneer's vision to empower global commerce by connecting businesses all around the world on an innovative financial platform. We are thrilled to add his expertise, along with the expertise of the entire Nyca team, to help us as we transform cross-border payments in today's borderless digital world." "Global financial services companies require the right application of technology, compliance and regulatory rigor, while also creating a compelling user experience," said Morris. "Payoneer continues to show it can excel in all of these areas, and continues to innovate and create compelling solutions for companies that need to make lots of payments or get paid in lots of places. It's a great leadership team, with a big vision, and I am excited to be part of it." Payoneer recently announced a strategic investment from Ping An Group as a follow-on to the Series D financing round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity that also included Carmel Ventures, Greylock and Vintage Venture Partners, which closed in March. About Payoneer Payoneer provides an industry-leading global payment platform that connects thousands of businesses with millions of trading partners and professionals worldwide, removing the limitations that typically impede cross-border commerce. Payoneer enables companies to send payments to over 200 countries and territories as easily as if they were making local payments, while professionals and small businesses worldwide can immediately receive funds for services provided or products sold, no matter where they are. For payers and payees alike, Payoneer ensures smooth, cost-effective, secure, compliant transactions. Our range of flexible payout options includes transfers to local banks worldwide, prepaid debit cards, international wire transfers and local eWallets. Venture-backed and profitable, Payoneer is ranked in the top 100 of the Inc. 500 Financial Service companies. For more information, visit us at www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. About Nyca Partners Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm exclusively focused on applying innovation in financial services into the global financial system. Nyca has rich experience and deep connections in both finance and technology, which provides a unique perspective and facility to help entrepreneurs transform payments, credit models and financial infrastructure. For more information, visit http://nycapartners.com/index.html. - See more at: http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/09/09/664796/10097704/en/Payoneer-Welcomes-Former-Citi-Exec-and-Visa-President-Hans-Morris-to-Its-Board-of-Directors-and-Adds-Investment-From-Morris-Nyca-Partners.html#sthash.3LJhH2aR.dpuf

Exclusive Data From Compass Ventures to Anchor the Footprint of Data on More Than 100 Million Professionals; Seasoned B2B Pros to Join eXelate Team

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 4, 2014) - eXelate, the leading independent data platform, today announced the availability of B2BX, a B2B Data as a Service Solution available directly to advertisers via its maX DMP and through its network of more than 125 media partners and platforms including AppNexus, MediaMath, Turn and more. Created to help marketers more effectively engage the hard to reach business professional audience, B2BX offers a combination of flexibility, scale, value and granularity not found in any other B2B data.

"Marketers previously had limited choice when it came to leveraging B2B data in association with premium media sources. With the launch of B2BX, eXelate, Compass and our other partners are breaking down the walled gardens and enabling marketers to find their most optimal professional audience on virtually any media source or platform," said Mark Zagorski, CEO of eXelate.

B2BX features proprietary data from eXelate's massive online publisher footprint as well as exclusive data from Compass Ventures, a premier B2B analytics provider. Reaching more than 100 million professionals across over 100 distinct segments, including Business Professionals and Small Business Owners, B2BX represents the largest, most accurate pool of B2B data available to marketers today.

"We have the most accurate professional data on the Web and are excited to be exclusively fueling eXelate's B2BX product," said Todd Love, Partner/Owner of Compass Ventures.

As part of its B2B initiative, eXelate has also announced that they have hired a seasoned B2B data pro to spearhead the business Frannie Danzinger formerly of Bizo, Gyro and Wyse Advertising will be joining the eXelate team as their VP Strategic Solutions in its New York City headquarters.

eXelate media partners have taken note. "We're excited to integrate the new B2BX data solution into our programmatic offering Audience On Demand™ (AOD), so that Publicis Groupe agencies and their clients can now benefit from more robust B2B insights," said Kelley Maves, VP of Data Solutions at VivaKi. "This, coupled with our existing data warehouse SkySkraper and extensive data and tech partnerships, will help us reach B2B audiences more accurately and at scale."

eXelate has made the B2BX data as a service solution available immediately on its premier platforms and via its maX DMP, and will be rolling it out to all of its more than 125-strong partner network in the next 30 days.

"Accurately reaching B2B audiences at scale has been a consistent challenge," said Stephanie Ewell, Senior Programmatic Buyer at Centro. "By partnering with eXelate, we'll be able to leverage the B2BX data solution in order to enable our clients to communicate with these audiences."

eXelate makes digital media more relevant for consumers and marketers through analytics, smart data and data management software. The company's ability to power smarter marketing decisions worldwide is the reason why 44 of the top 50 U.S. brands in beauty, beverages, CPG, consumer electronics, financial services, healthcare and luxury goods avail themselves of eXelate's platform connections and industry partnerships globally.

About Compass Ventures

Compass Ventures specializes in the creation of B2B information solutions with a strength in site level information compilation, verification and segmentation. The Compass Business information products fuel a multitude of applications including CRM, file enrichments, business analytics, internet display, computer hardware/software, email marketing, social media, telecommunications/mobile, cable/broadband, geo/spatial solutions, prospects/leads and financial/banking. Compass is one of the largest B2B information compilers in North America and verifies more business information in the U.S. than any other competitor. Visit www.compassventures.com to learn more.

About eXelate

eXelate, the leading independent data platform, empowers marketers with better insights and massive reach to more effectively engage consumers. Through eXelate's maX DMP (data management platform), fueled by eXelate's eXchange, first-party data can be managed, modeled, mobilized and measured across video, mobile and display channels. eXelate's eXchange, the largest pool of directly measured consumer data, reaches two billion active users and devices worldwide and includes key purchasing touch points -- online and offline -- from Nielsen, MasterCard Advisors, IXI and many more. As a member of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising and Evidon's Open Data Partnership, eXelate adheres to privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit www.eXelate.com or follow @eXelate.

ironSource, the world's leading digital delivery company, today announced the acquisition of mobile game studio Upopa. The studio brings mobile game creation expertise to the recently launched ironLabs, ironSource's internal innovation lab dedicated to creating new products and companies.

ironSource offers mobile and desktop developers platforms to reach relevant audiences, and to deliver and monetize their products. By using ironLabs to create a stream of new applications for all platforms, ironSource is able to maintain the perspective of the developer, and build products that directly address the needs of their user base. Adding Upopa to the ironSource portfolio allows the company to incorporate experts in mobile game development into every facet of their comprehensive offering, helping them better serve the needs of both mobile and gaming developers.

"We are always looking for ways to bring new capabilities to developers that can help them turn their ideas into sustainable and scalable businesses," said Omer Kaplan, Deputy CEO of ironSource. "Upopa's emphasis on creativity and building a truly enjoyable user-experience dovetails perfectly with ironSource's focus on providing solutions that have the best interests of both the user and the developer in mind."

Over the last year ironSource has placed a strategic emphasis on developing and growing its mobile solution, debuting mobileCore in August of 2013 to help mobile app developers successfully distribute and monetize their applications. With mobileCore working alongside ironSource's leading installer – installCore – the ironSource solution is both comprehensive and cross-platform, allowing developers to target users across their devices.

Along with ironSource's strong organic growth, the company has also pursued strategic M&As to integrate additional industry-leading solutions by other companies who demonstrate the same commitment to disruptive innovation and industry-leading solutions.

In only one year of operation, mobile game studio Upopa has already seen its games – like the incredibly popular app Hopeless – downloaded over 1,350,000 times and featured on the home pages of both the Google Play and Apple App stores.

"We're very excited to become part of the ironSource family. It's an amazing opportunity to utilize this platform to bring our work to new audiences, and to be able to leverage our unique perspective for new ironSource projects," said Niv Touboul CEO of Upopa. "From day one our main goal was to create outstanding games with a belief that great content will find is way to the players. ironSource combine a real understanding of what developers need with a commitment to giving users the best possible experience and we are thrilled to become part of it."

The ironSource team will feature the Company platforms and products at DMEXCO 2014 in Cologne, Germany, Sept 10-11, Hall 6.1 Aisle A No. 041a.

About ironSource

World leading digital distribution company ironSource, offers a complete ecosystem for downloadable applications, including all aspects of user acquisition, conversion, monetization, integrated analytics and optimization. ironSource platforms include installCore, mobileCore, displayCore and mediaCore. Founded in 2009 with headquarters in Tel Aviv, ironSource has offices in San Francisco and Beijing. ironSource is a privately held company backed by Carmel Ventures, an affiliate of the Viola Group. For more information, please visit us at http://www.ironsrc.com.

(Reuters) - Israel-based ironSource said on Thursday it has acquired mobile game studio Upopa, adding mobile game creation expertise to its new innovation lab, ironLabs.

Financial details were not disclosed.

IronSource helps mobile and desktop application developers distribute their apps and make money off of them. The acquisition of Upopa will enable ironSource to incorporate experts in mobile game development, helping it better serve the needs of mobile and gaming developers, the company said.

"We are always looking for ways to bring new capabilities to developers that can help them turn their ideas into sustainable ... businesses," said Omer Kaplan, deputy chief executive of ironSource.

Over the last year ironSource has focused on developing and growing its mobile offering.

In one year of operation, Upopa's games have been downloaded over 1.35 million times.

SK Telecom has launched a new service “T Persona Premium” in partnership with the world’s leader in mobile software management area, Red Bend Software. T Persona Premium, an upgrade version of the T Persona Standard launched in October last year, allows customers to use their mobile phone in two distinct modes, business and personal, with two separate phone numbers.

Many mobile phone users today rely on their devices for business purposes. But they are increasingly concerned about privacy and the possibility of security breaches. The T Persona Standard service addressed this problem by providing a separate space and strengthened security for business use. T Persona Premium unveiled recently adds security by using two independent operating systems to separate personal and business data while being assigned with two mobile phone numbers.

Lee Myung-geun, head of the corporate business division of SK Telecom, said, “Corporate security is essential, but employee satisfaction is also important. That’s why the introduction of BYOD [bring your own device] is not easy in satisfying the two requirements at the same time. SK Telecom provides a solution that satisfies corporations’ security requirements and employees’ privacy concerns through the partnership with Red Bend.”

Seo Jang-won, country manager of Red Bend Software’s Korea office, said, “Red Bend Software provided a mobile work environment that respects personal privacy in partnership with SK Telecom. T Persona Premium will become the first service that satisfies users’ urges to use mobile security features more conveniently and safely in the complex mobile environment.”

RealMatch, the leader in performance-based recruitment advertising solutions for digital publishers, announced today that it has been selected as an Inc. 5000 honoree among the nation's fastest growing private companies in 2014. The list represents the most comprehensive look at one of the most important segments of the economy—America's independent entrepreneurs.

"RealMatch's place in the Inc. 5000 serves not only as recognition of our success as a company, but also as a testament to our disruptive business model which is rapidly changing the landscape of the $19 billion online recruitment advertising industry," said Gal Almog, RealMatch founder and CEO. "RealMatch continues on an accelerated growth trajectory as we build the largest and most efficient talent marketplace in conjunction with online publishers and the communities they serve."

The Inc. 5000 winners were selected among thousands of nominated privately held American companies. Distinguished previous winners include Yelp, Pandora, Timberland, Dell, Oracle, and Zillow. A full list of all Inc. 5000 winners can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000/list.

"What surprises me, even though I know it's coming, is the sheer variety of the paths our entrepreneurs take to success, thematically reflecting how our economy has evolved," says Inc. President and Editor-In-Chief Eric Schurenberg. "This year there are far more social media and far fewer computer hardware businesses than there were, say, six years ago. But what doesn't change is the fearsome creativity unleashed by American entrepreneurship."

About Inc. and the Inc. 5000

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today's innovative company builders. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 6,000,000 today. For more information, visit http://www.inc.com/.

The Inc. 500|5000 is a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. Started in 1982, this prestigious list of the nation's most successful private companies has become the hallmark of entrepreneurial success. The Inc. 5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony is an annual event that celebrates their remarkable achievements. The event also offers informative workshops, celebrated keynote speakers, and evening functions. For more information on Inc. and the Inc. 5000 Conference, visit http://www.inc.com/.

About RealMatch

RealMatch is building the largest talent marketplace in conjunction with online publishers that matches employers and job seekers across the Web in the most efficient manner possible. RealMatch's performance-based recruitment advertising solution combines the most advanced job matching technology with targeted ad distribution and job-level campaign management across the largest recruitment advertising network in North America. Online publishers who leverage RealMatch's white-label solution are able to grow their revenue, attract more advertisers, and outperform their competition in terms of job seeker reach, ad performance, and quality of candidate response. For more information, visit www.realmatch.com.

“This will help deliver a stronger return on our digital investment to date and allow us to re-invest in improving the services that we offer to users.”

The deal comes as the football season kicks off, and in the three weeks of the campaign in July it prompted one million clicks and “promising commercial results”.

Stephanie Himoff, UK managing director of Outbrain, said the firm was responding to the increasingly mobile landscape.

“Content discovery is now a booming marketplace as brands start to realise its true potential and native continues its ascent,” WHO said.

“In 2014, we saw mobile internet pass 50 per cent of total time online. Outbrain is central to this movement and innovative multimedia partners such as Sky allow us to push the boundaries of new ideas and deliver what audiences crave in a way that fits seamlessly with publisher’s sites.”

Outbrain is known for its content recommendation services which run across premium publishers including the Guardian, the Telegraph and CNN.

Lori Bush Shepard, Clarizen’s vice president of corporate marketing, said the company’s Clarizen v6 product competes directly against Microsoft’s SharePoint, Yammer and Project, but does so with an integrated cloud suite.

The charting improvements include new interactive bubble and scatter charts that users can “slice and dice” to visualize the data represented in them. On the user interface front, Clarizen v6 has a refined “resource load” view for managers to scan how a project’s tasks are distributed among team members.

In addition, Clarizen simplified the process for inserting action items to discussion forum posts via a new “hotkey” drop-down menu for creating items like tasks, requests and projects. The password management feature is now more granular, letting administrators establish a maximum number of authentication attempts and the length of user “lock out” times.

Clarizen comes in three editions: Professional, which costs US$29.95 per user/month, Enterprise ($44.95 per user/month), and Unlimited ($54.95 per user/month). Those prices are based on a 36-month plan paid fully in advance. However, in each edition customers can buy licenses that are less expensive for users who don’t need access to all of the functionality of the full product.

Clarizen, founded six years ago and based in San Mateo, California, recently closed a $35 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs, bringing its total money raised to about $90 million. Other backers include Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures, DAG Ventures, Opus Capital and Vintage Investment Partners.

Enterprise Work Collaboration Leader Recognized for Significant Growth and Leadership

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced it has been named to the JMP Securities "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies" list for 2014. The report highlights the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software equity research team at JMP Securities, a full-service San Francisco-based investment bank.

Clarizen's award-winning enterprise solution enables companies to go from idea creation to execution by connecting social context, tasks and projects in a single cloud-based solution. Clarizen's inclusion on this highly regarded list highlights its continued market momentum and its innovative vision of changing the future of work.

Now in its sixth year, the 'Hot 100' identifies leading privately held software companies that show exceptional progress and potential within their sectors. Companies are selected each year based on the evaluation of multiple criteria, including financial growth, products and services, quality of leadership, customers and market potential.

"At Clarizen, we're setting out to transform how work gets done, connecting unstructured conversations with structured work to help enterprises become real-time, high-performance organizations," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, Clarizen founder and CEO. "It is rewarding to have our innovation and growth recognized through our inclusion in "The Hot 100."

In addition to being named to the JMP Hot 100 list, Clarizen has already received numerous accolades in 2014, including:

The way most companies work is broken. First we build work groups, and then we engage in conversations, which may become actions and, ideally, these actions become deliverables. Each of these typically live in disconnected " islands" of activity, managed by different systems. Clarizen is different in that it connects these islands into a "work graph" that is organically created through the act of getting work done. The work graph enables collaboration that drives results, turning every organization into a high-performance operation.

About Clarizen

Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,300 organizations across 76 countries, including dozens of the Fortune 500. Most recently, Gigaom Research rated Clarizen at the top in its Sector RoadMap: process based collaboration in 2014 report. Founded in 2006, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.

Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Samanage, provider of the only unified service desk and asset management cloud solution, has been named to the Triangle Business Journal's 2014 Best Places to Work. This is the second consecutive year Samanage has been named to this exclusive list of top employers in the Triangle region.

"We are thrilled to once again make this exclusive list of top employers in the region," said Darroll Buytenhuys, Samanage COO. "What I am most proud of in building Samanage is the exceptional group of individuals we have on the team. The formula for building a great company starts and ends with great people. The exceptional commitment and passion this team demonstrates every single day toward each other and for our customers is extraordinary. "

Samanage is one of 50 companies that were named the 2014 Best Places to Work in the Triangle. Inclusion on the list was based on an employee-survey process facilitated by Quantum Market Research. Employers were evaluated on specific criteria including positive work environment, company culture, leadership support and overall employee benefits. The Triangle Business Journal will honor these companies at an awards banquet on Friday, September 26 at the Durham Convention Center.

"It is important to all of us at Samanage that we continue to build a company where employees love coming to work," Buytenhuys said. "We put an emphasis on employee engagement and benefits because we truly value the contributions our employees make to each other and our customers. Happy employees equals happy customers."

Samanage recently moved into their new corporate headquarters in Cary, NC. There are currently 40 employees, with plans to continue to grow that number rapidly throughout the year and next year.

About Samanage Samanage provides the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market today. Our always new software delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust IT Service Management (ITSM) solution in less than 14 days. Our goal is to help customers deliver a superior service experience to their end users, and real value throughout their organization by improving asset control, empowering end users, and maximizing resources.

BOSTON, Jul 22, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Perfecto Mobile , the leader in mobile application quality, today announced a benchmark survey, “ Why Mobile Apps Fail ." The results, based on insights from nearly 900 respondents from a variety of industries including high tech, financial services and telecommunications, explored the top challenges faced by testers and end users, and how issues can be effectively addressed to minimize defects in mobile apps before they are launched.

According to the survey results, almost half of mobile application issues are identified by users, essentially making users the final QA step. The survey revealed that 44 percent of the defects are found by the user, 24 percent from direct feedback, and another 20 percent from public user reviews (e.g. in app stores). When asked to rank the types of issues most frequently encountered by mobile app users, user interface issues, performance, functionality and device compatibility were at the top of the list.

“Enterprises spend months investing, planning and building an app to coordinate with the company’s mobile strategy, and when it launches they want it to be successful and have the same quality experience across all mobile platforms for every unique user. Having users discover bugs and then abandon the app not only tarnishes the brand reputation, it diminishes the investment and value that went into building the app, and negatively impacts the business,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile. “Our survey explores exactly what challenges enterprises face in mobile testing and how to improve overall app quality.”

The survey identified the top three challenges in mobile testing: insufficient device coverage (63 percent); lack of reliable automation (48 percent); and, needing more coverage to execute test scenarios than time permits (47 percent). Survey respondents believed the most critical measures to reduce mobile app defects are more functional testing, more device/OS coverage and more performance testing.

To overcome these challenges and ensure a better user experience and improve overall app quality, Perfecto Mobile offers the following tips:

Utilize a cloud-based Device-as-a-Service : assuring sufficient device and OS coverage can help teams focus on testing, not managing devices;

Use a tool that can support continuous, unattended testing : improve efficiency by embracing automation that enables testers to test more with fewer resources and greater consistency; and

Deploy a monitoring system : providing early detection of performance issues before they impact users will help to improve quality for users.

Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, enabling them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile’s cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile app quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.

More than 1000 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.

TradAir, the leading provider of front office optimization solutions, announces the appointments of Brian Andreyko as Head of Strategy and Corporate Development and Rob Wing as Managing Director, Head of Sales.

Brian Andreyko joins TradAir from MakoFx where he was CEO. Prior to MakoFx Brian was EVP and member of the executive team at ICAP Electronic Broking, and was Global Head of EBS Product and Development. Before joining ICAP he was COO and Chief of Staff at Currenex, where he was part of the executive team responsible for turning the company around before its acquisition by State Street.

Rob Wing joins TradAir with over 17 years of sales experience across technology solutions. In his role, he is responsible for increasing sales globally and interfacing with clients on a day-to-day basis.

Before joining TradAir, Rob was at Currenex for seven years in key roles, most recently as Sales Director and Vice President for EMEA, with responsibility for the sale of technology solutions to banks, hedge funds, brokers and white label partners. He started his FX career on the FX sales desk at Worldspreads.

Illit Geller, CEO, TradAir said: “We are delighted to welcome both Brian and Rob to TradAir. Brian brings with him a wealth of experience in both corporate and product strategy development and I look forward to working with him as we seek to further develop the business. Rob’s knowledge and sales experience stands us in good stead to expand our customer base around the world.”

New Partners Include Washington Post, Diversity on Demand,
Lancaster Newspapers Inc., and Many More

NEW YORK, July 16, 2014 -- RealMatch announced
today it continues its rapid growth trajectory in the online recruitment
advertising industry with the launch of 55 new job board platform and posting
distribution deals in the first half of 2014 with leading newspapers, trade
publishers, broadcasting and online media companies. New affiliate partners
include highly reputable brands such as the Washington Post, Diversity On
Demand, Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., Expo Web, and Utah MediaOne Group.

Hundreds of digital publishers have turned to RealMatch to power
their online job boards and job posting distribution services in order to
generate new revenue. RealMatch's unique white-label recruitment advertising
solution significantly boosts overall job board performance enabling publishers
to better compete in their individual markets and attract new
advertisers.

"RealMatch's ability to deliver a true performance-based
recruitment advertising solution for digital publishers has fueled the rapid
expansion of our network. A bigger network means wider reach and better
performance for our partners' job posting services," said Gal Almog,
founder and CEO of RealMatch. "We welcome our new partners and look
forward to helping them achieve success in their markets."

RealMatch has developed the most sophisticated job posting
optimization, targeted distribution, and job matching technologies that produce
much higher qualified applicant response rates compared to traditional job
boards. In addition, RealMatch partners benefit from an increase in site
traffic and audience engagement with RealMatch's innovative approach to
recruitment advertising.

Samanage, provider of the only unified service desk and asset management cloud solution, announced today that David Marrow has joined its executive leadership team as vice president of global sales. Marrow will lead the global sales team, building capacity to scale over the next several years, setting strategic direction of the sales organization and managing the sales forecast and predictability.

"The ITSM mid-market is ripe for disruption, and Samanage is uniquely positioned to capture significant market share," said Doron Gordon, Samanage CEO. "To continue our growth rate of 30% quarter over quarter, we need the kind of leadership David brings to a team. His wealth of experience building and leading successful sales teams will be a critical asset as we prepare Samanage for the next stage of growth."

Prior to Samanage, Marrow served as president and co-founder of Kalloop, a SaaS-based employee scheduling system, and in director of sales positions for UL Workplace Health and Safety, and Syncfusion. His considerable sales experience in the tech arena also includes building strong sales teams and results at SolarWinds (EMEA and US) and Red Hat (APAC).

"One of the things that attracted me most to Samanage is the unique and immediate time to value the solutions bring to customers," commented Marrow. "The primary focus is on delivering an outstanding user experience with exceptional usability and simplicity, combined with the level of sophistication and functionality required to manage complex IT environments. I'm excited to be part of a team that provide such great business agility and customer service."

Marrow earned his bachelor's degree in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations from North Carolina State University.

About Samanage Samanage provides the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market today. Our always new software delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust IT Service Management (ITSM) solution in less than 14 days. Our goal is to help customers deliver a superior service experience to their end users, and real value throughout their organization by improving asset control, empowering end users, and maximizing resources. Learn more at: http://www.samanage.com.

Samanage, provider of the only unified service desk and asset management cloud solution, announced today it was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. The AlwaysOn list represents the top private companies that are creating technology innovations for the Global Silicon Valley.

Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. Samanage was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts, including investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders spanning the globe, based on the following criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz.

Samanage and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn's 12th Annual Innovation Summit July 29-30 in Mountain View, CA.

"As the expansion of the mobile and cloud markets continue, the companies on this year's AlwaysOn Global 250 are racing to provide business and consumer users with the best products and services," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "More legacy industries are being redefined by the innovation community, making the companies on this year's AlwaysOn Global 250 the highest-growth opportunities in today's private marketplace."

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2014 list.

"We're honored to be recognized as one of the top emerging companies creating new business opportunities in the Global Silicon Valley," said Ginny Mahaney, VP Marketing for Samanage. "Samanage has experienced tremendous growth in the mid-market and emerging enterprise global organizations as a result of the innovation we bring to the service management industry."

About Samanage Samanage provides the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market today. Our always new software delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust IT Service Management (ITSM) solution in less than 14 days. Our goal is to help customers deliver a superior service experience to their end users, and real value throughout their organization by improving asset control, empowering end users, and maximizing resources. Learn more at: http://www.samanage.com.

About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand connecting and informing the entrepreneurial community in the Global Silicon Valley. Founded by Red Herring founding editor, Tony Perkins in 2003, AlwaysOn's mission is to continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, bloggers, and advertisers like no other media brand.

ironSource Internal Innovation Hub to Serve As Center for the Creation of New Digital Products and Companies; ironSource to Present Application Distribution Platforms and Products at Casual Connect 2014 in San Francisco, Booth 304

ironSource, the world’s leading digital delivery platform, today announced the launch of ironLabs, an internal innovation center focused on the creation of new software applications and companies.

ironLabs helps preserve ironSource’s knack for disruptive innovation even as the company continues to grow and expand, by promoting and encouraging the developers working with ironSource to design and build innovative new applications.

ironSource has created market leading platforms for connecting developers with potential users and providing effective monetization mechanisms. ironSource delivers millions of desktop and mobile installs monthly, but ironLabs serves to strengthen the company’s knowledge regarding the likes and needs of users. By distributing and monetizing the internal ironLabs products, ironSource also learns first-hand how to best meet developers’ often changing needs.

“Fostering the development of internal divisions and products helps us keep a developers’ perspective so our core products continue to answer their needs,” said Tomer Bar-Zeev, CEO of ironSource. “We developed our original platform to alleviate the pain points we encountered as developers, and want to make sure we stay true to that approach. We understand what developers need, because we are developers ourselves.”

ironLabs is just one of the ways ironSource maintains its startup DNA as the company's rapid growth continues. Several consumer-facing projects developed by the ironLabs team include the popular iOS app good weather, desktop and android game platform Gameo, and the cross-platform application Spots.

“Each one of our products is a startup inside the larger company,” commented Sagi Benbasat, the General Manager of ironLabs. “And we develop with the pace and energy as any other startup.”

The innovative products and services handled by ironLabs are featured on the newly updated ironSource website.

ironSource will present its platforms and products at booth 304 at Casual Connect San Francisco July 22-24.

About ironSource

World leading digital distribution company ironSource, offers a complete ecosystem for downloadable applications, including all aspects of user acquisition, conversion, monetization, integrated analytics and optimization. ironSource platforms include installCore, mobileCore, displayCore and mediaCore. Founded in 2009 with headquarters in Tel Aviv, ironSource has offices in San Francisco and Beijing. ironSource is a privately held company backed by Carmel Ventures, an affiliate of the Viola Group. For more information, please visit us at http://www.ironsrc.com.

Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses send and receive cross-border payments, announced today its partnership with Ball To All, a global nonprofit organization with the mission to “keep kids playing.” Through the partnership, Payoneer will donate services to enable Ball To All to send funds to its global ambassadors as they deliver recreational balls to less fortunate children around the world.

Ball To All was founded in 2013, and its overall goal is for every child to have a recreational ball, encouraging an active lifestyle so children can grow happier and healthier while staying out of trouble. The nonprofit organization has ambassadors delivering recreational balls in several countries, including Ethiopia, India, Jordan, Kenya and Zimbabwe. With ambassadors all over the world, Ball To All previously faced challenges accommodating the cross-border payouts necessary to provide its ambassadors with funds to carry out the organization’s mission.

“Through this partnership, we are offering Ball To All complimentary payouts through our user-friendly platform,” said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. “We’re thrilled to give back to the community through our work with Ball To All and have high hopes for the organization’s continued positive impact on children around the world.”

Ball To All has significant plans to expand. The organization will expand its global presence through donations, sponsorships and partnerships such as this one with Payoneer, which will ultimately lower the cost to buy recreational balls in bulk and ship them around the world.

“Prior to working with Payoneer, we experienced difficulties and high costs associated with sending cross-border funds to remote areas around the world,” said Ori Eisen, founder of Ball To All. “This partnership enables us to cut overall costs and time spent facilitating payouts so we can focus more on our underlying mission – providing as many children as possible with an avenue for exercise and activity.”

About Payoneer

Payoneer provides an industry-leading global payment platform that connects thousands of businesses with millions of trading partners and professionals worldwide, removing the limitations that typically impede cross-border commerce. Payoneer enables companies to send payments to over 200 countries and territories as easily as if they were making local payments, while professionals and small businesses worldwide can immediately receive funds for services provided or products sold, no matter where they are. For payers and payees alike, Payoneer ensures smooth, cost-effective, secure, compliant transactions. Our range of flexible payout options includes transfers to local banks worldwide, prepaid debit cards, international wire transfers and local eWallets. Venture-backed and profitable, Payoneer is ranked in the top 100 of the Inc. 500 Financial Service companies. For more information, visit us at http://www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

About Ball To All

Ball To All is a nonprofit organization with volunteers around the world, who help deliver soccer balls to kids who cannot afford one.

Ball To All was founded with a simple premise: keep kids playing – to help them grow up healthier and happier, and at the same time, keep them out of trouble. Our mission is simple and captured in the slogan: Every Kid Can Have a Ball.

In addition to new features, subscribers to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and non-subscriber users of Microsoft Azure were offered price discounts for the Perfecto Mobile testing service.

The Perfecto Mobile service provides mobile app testing solutions based on the company's MobileCloud platform, which can draw upon a cloud of thousands of connected smartphones and tablets that developers can use to run various kinds of tests.

Previously, the service has been available as mobile testing extensions to Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online.

The new features include support for C# testing scripts that run on the cloud of devices from within Visual Studio, according to a blog post by S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division. Another new feature is support for Windows Phone 8.1 devices, including new Nokia Lumia models yet to ship.

Also, Somasegar said, "Perfecto Mobile has enabled great integration with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online and we are working now on additional scenarios, including integrating into the build process to automatically provision devices and run tests from a work item, and publish test results back to TFS or Visual Studio Online."

The special discounts for MSDN subscribers include price discounts for manual testing in the public cloud and automated testing in the public and private cloud services.

The private cloud provides dedicated services in a highly secure hosted or on-premises environment. The public cloud provides the top 100 devices in the market for testing in a shared environment. The devices are continually updated according to market trends and customer requests.

Microsoft Azure users who aren't MSDN subscribers can get Perfecto Mobile services through the Azure Store with discounts through year's end.

"With Perfecto Mobile's Visual Studio templates, development teams can easily extend product builds and manual and automated testing to thousands of devices from their existing Team Foundation Server installations or Visual Studio Online accounts," Somasegar said. "Any development team can use TFS to manage Windows 8, Android and iOS versions of their application, while testing each version on the relevant set of real devices in the MobileCloud.

"When test failures occur," Somasegar continued, "Perfecto Mobile automatically generates TFS work items, which include screenshots and a full video of the tests that were run, making it easy for developers to find and fix the issue."

Boston, MA - June 26, 2014 – Perfecto Mobile, provider of the MobileCloud™ Mobile App Quality Platform, today announced a partnership with CA Technologies to help enterprises deploy mobile applications with confidence. Under the terms of the agreement, CA Technologies will resell Perfecto Mobile’s MobileCloud as part of its solutions. CA MobileCloud will allow users to achieve optimal results from testing, accelerate application delivery, improve quality and reduce costs through automated mobile application testing on real devices located in the cloud.

“Mobile mandates fast delivery and the cloud is an essential element of agile development. The combination of these two messages is a shift in the way the software development lifecycle (SDLC) market has operated previously,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile. “By integrating our MobileCloud Mobile App Quality Platform to the industry’s leading mobile-ready service virtualization solution from CA Technologies – DevOps and QA/testing teams can now virtualize services while testing their apps on real mobile devices that operate in real-world conditions and perform automated, reliable, cross-platform tests to deliver higher quality apps faster.”

This partnership represents a shared vision by Perfecto Mobile and CA Technologies, bringing value closer to DevOps teams as they become tightly integrated and highly virtualized, automated and managed. These teams can now achieve value in their development by combining pre-existing knowledge of CA Service Virtualization capabilities with real cloud-based mobile environments and automated testing for optimal quality. With CA MobileCloud, a suite of real devices and networks available 24X7 in the cloud, organizations reduce an application’s time to market without sacrificing the quality of the application.

“Software applications, including mobile apps are becoming increasingly important for all businesses, yet quality, time-to-market and development costs continue to be significant challenges,” said Shridhar Mittal, general manager, Application Delivery, CA Technologies. “Enterprises using CA MobileCloud will help developers ‘shift left’ and deliver the quality applications their customers have come to expect.”

NEW YORK, June 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Outbrain, the world's largest content discovery platform*, has today released a new set of content guidelines designed to update the parameters of what content it will accept across its growing network. Revised annually, the updated guidelines are the latest move by the category leader to ensure readers and publishers come into contact with the most interesting, authentic and, above all, trusted content.

"Maintaining reader trust has and always will be our number one priority," said Yaron Galai, co-founder and CEO of Outbrain. "As the industry recognizes the promise of content discovery, we believe that, in order to create a long-term and sustainable future, the industry must abide by one simple premise - content recommendations should point to genuine content that is valuable to the reader."

Outbrain's content guidelines, which are publicly available athttp://www.outbrain.com/amplify/guidelines/ and must be adhered to by all customers placing recommended links, make clear that only content which is informational and/or has intrinsic entertainment value to the reader, should appear on Outbrain network sites. Links that drive to commercials, infomercials, advertising copy, or self-promotional content will not be permitted into the system.

"We believe that these are guiding principles which the entire industry, including publishers and our counterparts, should adopt," Galai added. "Placing audience satisfaction and trust first and foremost will future-proof our whole industry for growth."

In addition, the content discovery leader has put in place a number of other initiatives that underpin its 'always-on' focus on user trust:

A tool that gives publishers the power to make decisions about content links on their sites and allows them to exclude links as they see fit, ensuring they control the authenticity of their readers' experience

Bolstering its team with the addition of a full-time content strategist to ensure its content guidelines are constantly advanced and iterated upon, in line with the evolving landscape

Headline restrictions that clamp down further on misleading, sensational or too-good-to-be-true claims, aggressive marketing and sales language

Established in 2006, Outbrain was the first to market with its content discovery platform and has led the market ever since, raising $99 million to date and more than doubling revenue year-over-year for the past four years. Outbrain's global footprint extends to 17 national offices, and the company now serves over 150 billion personalized content recommendations every month.

As it rolls out these new guidelines, Outbrain continues to build on its strong growth trajectory. In April, Outbrain had 190,083,000 million unique visitors in the U.S., according to ComScore, and is outpacing Facebook in reach in leading indicator markets like Germany.

The Journal Broadcast Group has announced that it has deployed LiveU’s LU500 backpacks at its 12 stations to help expand the group’s newsgathering capabilities.
The LU500 is the vendor’s newest and highest performing cellular bonding backpack.
“Our group was interested in utilizing a cellular bonding solution for our newsgathering operations due to its flexibility, for example in live weather coverage on the move, as well as for its cost-effectiveness,” said Andy Laird, VP and CTO at the Journal Broadcast Group.
Laird noted that the broadcasters did extensive tests and eventually settled on the LU500s because they “not only provided superior video transmission in challenging situations, but was also easy to use, lightweight, and highly portable compared to other options.”
The LU500 bonds together six to eight internal cellular connections and weighs only 2.2 pounds, about half of the weight of the company’s earlier model.

The global football event is another major milestone in LiveU usage
HACKENSACK, N.J., June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, has announced that more than 80 broadcasters from around the world have already used its technology during the first week of the 20th FIFA World Cup in Brazil, bringing the event to life and providing 360 degree coverage that would otherwise be impossible.
Broadcasters are choosing to transmit the vast majority of their LiveU footage live: a remarkable 98 per cent of the 3945 transmission sessions that have occurred at the time of writing were made using live transmission mode. This represents a major increase from the last game-changing event for cellular bonding: the London 2012 Olympics. With over 200 LiveU units deployed, 816 hours of live transmission, and over 22TB of data delivered in the first week alone, the tournament is proving highly successful for those using LiveU.
Juan Pablo Marino, Director of Transmission, Caracol TV Colombia said: "We used several solutions from LiveU for the World Cup. The mobility we had with the units and Xtender gave us the ability to go live from five different locations at the same time following the Colombian team and its fans. A true game changer for us in the creation of content for global events."
With LiveU, broadcasters no longer need to rent expensive satellite trucks, have the ability to easily travel with their LiveU backpacks throughout the 12 host cities which are located far apart, and provide live shots from anywhere without line-of-sight or vehicle access limitations. Therefore, broadcasters can now provide up-to-the-minute content, from many more places, and in a cost-effective manner. By leveraging the new 4G networks that were deployed in Brazil ahead of the World Cup, LiveU units are providing satellite-like picture quality with low end-to-end delay.
Ronen Artman, LiveU's VP Marketing, said, "With these many units, LiveU has become one of the largest single service providers for outdoor uplinks covering mega events. At one point in the opening week there were 84 simultaneous LiveU broadcasts! We are very glad to see that the robustness of our market-leading products means that broadcasters are able to brush aside any pre-tournament concerns about overall cellular connectivity in the country. We are setting new records for live daily usage of bonded cellular transmission during a single event."
During the FIFA World Cup 2014™, LiveU is providing onsite support at all the main venues in Brazil both directly and through its local partner, UCAN Digital Transmission. LiveU is deploying its entire portfolio of uplink solutions, including its backpack and camera-mount cellular bonding devices such as the LU500 and its signal boost Xtender external antennas.
LiveU's support team is on the ground in the different venues, offering onsite 24/7 support in multiple languages during the tournament.
LiveU owns the patent for cellular bonding for remote news gathering in the US and other countries. All LiveU products are based on this fourth-generation patented technology.
About LiveU
LiveU (www.liveu.tv) is the leader in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions. LiveU's award-winning technology enables live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions are being used for breaking news and high-profile events, such as the Sochi Winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup™, US Presidential Campaign, London 2012 Olympics, Royal Baby, Hurricane Sandy, Super Bowl and US Collegiate Championships. From backpacks to smartphones, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.
Press Contact:
For LiveU:
Joss Armitage (Int'l)
+44-7979-908-547
joss@jumppr.tv
Shelley Kapitulik / Lloyd Trufelman (US)
203-898-1501 / 212-905-6060
shelley@trylonsmr.com / Lloyd@trylonsmr.com
Sales Contact:
201-742-5228
info@liveu.tv (Int'l) / info_us@liveu.tv (US)
SOURCE LiveU

Enterprise Work Collaboration Leader Receives Highest Marks for Meeting BYOD, Changing Workforce and Distributed Teams Criteria
SAN MATEO, Calif. – June 17, 2014 – Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced that Gigaom Research rated Clarizen at the top in Gigaom’s Sector RoadMap: process based collaboration in 2014 report. Clarizen earned the highest rating in the report, which identified and assessed the relative importance of six disruption vectors that companies can drive to gain revenue and implement collaboration that drives business results
As David Coleman, Gigaom Research analyst, says in the report, “Clarizen’s very customizable platform allows users to integrate various types of data sources while also building work automation for greater efficiency and accuracy.”
With Clarizen, customers have a unique and easy-to-use collaboration and project management solution that connects unstructured conversations with structured work. Clarizen is redefining enterprise communication by delivering on its work graph™ concept of connecting social context, tasks and projects on a single cloud-based platform, to enable collaboration that drives results.
The Gigaom Research report looks at six key forces or trends that will dramatically disrupt the marketplace over the next 24 months. Vendors were evaluated and weighted across six key vectors, which include: distributed teams (25%), BYOD (20%), changing workforce (20%), mobile (20%), process-specific (10%) and pricing (5%). By understanding these disruption vectors in process-based collaboration, companies in the sector can gain revenue and market share.
“Being placed at the top in process-based collaboration by such a well-regarded analyst firm such as Gigaom Research reinforces our commitment to providing our customers with a robust yet easy-to-use work collaboration solution,” said Clarizen CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski. “By combining true social engagement with powerful project management, Clarizen V6 can turn every company into a live high-performance organization.”
To download the full “Sector RoadMap: process-based collaboration in 2014” report, click here.
The Work Graph™
The way most companies work is broken. First we build work groups, and then we engage in conversations, which may become actions and, ideally, these actions become deliverables. Each of these typically live in disconnected “ islands" of activity, managed by different systems. Clarizen is different in that it connects these islands into a “work graph” that is organically created through the act of getting work done. The work graph enables collaboration that drives results, turning every organization into a high-performance, real-time operation.
About Gigaom Research
Gigaom Research provides timely, in-depth analysis of emerging technologies for individual and corporate subscribers. Our network of 200+ independent analysts provides new content daily that bridges the gap between breaking news and long-range research. Visit us at research.gigaom.com
About Clarizen
Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2006, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.
Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

PlayBuzz, the leading global
network of online playful content, announced today a $3 million Series A
funding led by Carmel Ventures, a member of the Viola Group. Daniel Cohen,
General Partner at Carmel led the investment and joined the Company’s board of
directors.

PlayBuzz platform is used by thousands of web publishers,
bloggers and brands, to create quizzes, polls, lists and other formats of
engaging, viral content that can be embedded on any web site and mobile app. Six
months after launch, the company's website at www.PlayBuzz.com
serves more than 40 million monthly unique users and is ranked among the top 50
sites in US traffic according to Quantcast. The company was founded in 2012 by
Shaul Olmert, Yaron Buznach and Tom Pachys and employees 14 people out of its
offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Shaul Olmert,
co-founder & CEO of PlayBuzz said: “Playful content has taken the
internet by storm. These popular content formats are the most engaging and
viral forms of online media. PlayBuzz brings this innovation to every
publisher, and created a network where thousands of leading publishers share
their playful content items on the open web”.

Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Carmel
Ventures added: “PlayBuzz provides an outstanding
experience to publishers and brands, allowing them to leverage user generated
content, or create original content and embed it on their products to
increase engagement, viral distribution and monetization. We are happy to
partner with PlayBuzz’s talented management team and support them while
building the leading global platform for playful content”.

About PlayBuzz

PlayBuzz is the leading global network of online playful
content. its platform is used by thousands of web publishers, bloggers and
brands, to create quizzes, polls, lists and other formats of engaging, viral
content that can be embedded on any web site and mobile app. The company was
founded in 2012 by Shaul Olmert, Yaron Buznach and Tom Pachys and employees 14
people out of its offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more details visit the
company's website at www.PlayBuzz.com.

About Carmel Ventures

As Israel’s top tier VC
firm, Carmel invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early stage companies and
builds global category leaders across a number of key market segments,
including: software, new enterprise infrastructure, Big Data, digital media,
consumer applications and semiconductors. For more information, please visit:
www.carmelventures.com. Carmel is a
member of the Viola Group, Israel’s premier technology-focused PE group with
over $2B under management.

SingTel Owned Amobee Deepens Reach and Capabilities of Its One-Stop Digital Advertising Platform
SINGAPORE and REDWOOD CITY, CA, Jun 10, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Amobee, the company defining digital advertising, today announced that it has signed agreements to acquire Adconion Direct North America and Adconion Australia (together, Adconion) as well as Kontera Technologies, Inc. (Kontera).
The acquisitions will strengthen Amobee's position as the leading provider of mobile-led digital marketing technology and solutions across all channels and screens for global brands. With the combined capabilities, Amobee is positioned to better capitalize on the fast growing global digital advertising market.
Adconion will be acquired at a valuation of US$235 million. The consideration payable is approximately US$209 million, excluding debt. The valuation and consideration payable for Kontera is approximately US$150 million. The acquisitions are subject to certain conditions being satisfied and approvals obtained. Amobee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel).
Adconion, a cross channel digital advertising company, offers digital advertising solutions to Fortune 500 brands across key marketing channels -- display, video, email and social -- on all devices from a unified technology platform. This gives advertisers and publishers a one-stop shop for all their digital advertising needs.
Kontera is a digital content intelligence and marketing technology company with offices in the US, UK and Israel. Its real-time digital content analysis platform analyzes data across mobile, web and social networks, and enables advertisers to use its native advertising capabilities to serve the most relevant ads to consumers. The intelligence and actionable insights derived from the Kontera platform allows advertisers and agencies to make real-time decisions about their brands and marketing campaigns to achieve better returns.
Mr. Allen Lew, CEO, Group Digital L!fe and Chairman of Amobee, said: "The SingTel Group has significant scale and customer relationships with over 500 million mobile customers, as well as intelligent networks, billing capabilities and extensive touch points. Together with Amobee's advanced digital marketing technology and solutions, we will create relevant and innovative marketing campaigns across multiple channels for brands and advertisers. These acquisitions will further differentiate Amobee and help solidify its position in the digital advertising market."
"We are excited to join forces with Adconion and Kontera, two companies that have led the industry with innovative marketing solutions and cutting edge technology to achieve outstanding returns for Fortune 500 companies," said Mr. Mark Strecker, CEO of Amobee. "Amobee offers the most advanced mobile advertising technology and solutions to large advertisers and publishers on a global scale."
Mr. Strecker added: "The digital advertising business is about scale and capitalizing on the market opportunities with technology as a core differentiator. With these two acquisitions announced today, we have extended our product offerings, increased our sales footprint and reinforced Amobee's leadership position in the fast growing digital advertising market."
"We have admired Amobee's strong mobile technology capabilities and expertise and are thrilled to combine our two companies to become the undisputed leader in the global digital marketing space," said Ms. Kim Perell, CEO of Adconion Direct and President of Adconion Media Group. "With Amobee, we can now offer our customers a complete suite of digital marketing solutions combined in a single platform."
"Data has become the essential ingredient to successfully reach the right customers with the right message at the right time," said Mr. Yoav Shaham, CEO of Kontera. "Being a part of Amobee, we can more fully leverage our real-time content analysis platform across the entire digital ecosystem, enabling CMOs to measure and evaluate the success of their brand in ways never possible before."
About Amobee Amobee is defining digital advertising with comprehensive technology, solutions and services for advertisers, publishers and mobile operators worldwide. Amobee technology enables its customers to run targeted, leading-edge mobile-centric ad campaigns on a global scale with unparalleled ROI. Amobee's proprietary Amobee 3D platform empowers advertisers to create realistic, interactive 3D ads that allow mobile users to engage with products in ways never possible before. Amobee is a division of SingTel's Digital L!fe Group, which is focused on creating new digital growth engines to delight customers and disrupt adjacent industries. Amobee was named "Mobile Marketing & Advertising Agency of the Year" at the 17th Annual Global Mobile Award.
About SingTel SingTel is Asia's leading communications group providing a portfolio of services including voice and data solutions over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms as well as infocomm technology and pay TV. The Group has presence in Asia and Africa with over 500 million mobile customers in 25 countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. It also has a network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.

Company Recognized for Enabling Effective, Efficient Workplace Collaboration, Helping Organizations Get More Done, Faster
SAN MATEO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/10/14 -- Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced that CIO Review, a technology and business magazine for corporate decision makers of enterprise IT, has named Clarizen to its list of the "20 Most Promising Digital Marketing Solution Providers" in the Marketing Arena.
Clarizen was selected based on its enterprise-class work collaboration that goes beyond simple project management, helping organizations reduce costs while getting the right work done more quickly. Clarizen's award-winning product for the enterprise and mid-market, Clarizen v6, has transformed work collaboration, connecting social context, tasks and projects on a single cloud-based platform to enable collaboration that drives results.
"Clarizen has been on our radar for some time now for stirring a revolution in the marketing space, and we are happy to showcase them this year due to their continuing excellence in delivering top-notch technology-driven-solutions," said Harvi Sachar, Publisher & Founder, CIO Review. "Clarizen continued to break new ground within the past year benefitting its customers around the globe and we're excited to have them featured on our top companies list."
CIO Review's annual list showcases the 20 Most Promising Digital Marketing Solution Providers that offer marketing solutions. The list of companies is chosen by a panel of experts and members of CIO Review's editorial board with the goal of recognizing and promoting technology entrepreneurship. Clarizen, with more than 2,000 customers in 76 countries, was also recognized for being a cloud-based solution that bridges islands of activity, providing the real-time visibility necessary to succeed in today's multi-site, multi-tasking work environment.
"Enterprise work collaboration that provides instant, real-time access to information that matters is critical for accurate and effective decision-making," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO, Clarizen. "This latest designation from CIO Review highlights our continued efforts to arm project managers and enterprises with the real-time visibility and clarity they need to make decisions based on data, not guesswork. Clarizen is committed to helping turn every organization into a high-performance, real-time operation."
CIO Review's 20 Most Promising Digital Marketing Solution Providers will be featured in a printed Marketing Technology special issue. The issue will also include company profiles and interviews with select CMOs, Directors and Heads of Marketing from Fortune 500 companies, who will share their personal experiences on managing the technology challenges of their organizations.
The Marketing Technology special edition of CIO Review is available here.
About CIO Review
CIO Review constantly endeavors to identify "The Best" in a variety of areas important to tech business. Through nominations and consultations with industry leaders, our editors choose the best in different domains. Marketing is the list of 20 Most Promising Digital Marketing Solution Providers of 2014.
About Clarizen
Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2006, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.
Media Contact:
Jen Howard
Clarizen
650-544-2937

NEW YORK, June 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way technology companies and SMEs send and receive cross-border payments, has received an investment from the investment arm of Ping An Group, a leading integrated financial services provider and the largest non-state-owned enterprise in China.
This endorsement by Ping An, along with collaboration to jointly promote the Payoneer brand and leverage Ping An's local know-how, will accelerate Payoneer's growth in China, enhance its customer relationships and further strengthen the value proposition Payoneer offers businesses throughout Asia and beyond.
"We share a strategic vision with Ping An of how we can help Chinese businesses grow their cross-border sales by facilitating scalable, efficient, cross-border payments services," said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. "This is a huge market opportunity and this financing is just the beginning of our collaboration with Ping An, solidifying Payoneer's position as the go-to payments company for businesses looking to scale in China, Asia and the rest of the world."
Ping An is one of the largest and most respected financial services providers in China and the world. Ping An was ranked No. 181 on the Fortune Global 500 Top Companies in 2013. As Ping An's three pillars of business – insurance, banking and investment – continue to thrive across more than 80 million customers, its investment in Payoneer serves as validation of Payoneer's growing brand, industry leadership and market opportunity in China.
"Payoneer has an exciting business strategy in China and offers payment solutions to marketplaces, ecommerce platforms, technology companies, professionals and small business owners around the world," said Jiang Zhang, Director of Ping An Ventures. "We are confident that this partnership will result in the addition of many value-added services and support Chinese business owners as they grow their sales around the world and support global companies as they expand in the fast-growing China market."
For more information on how Payoneer is expanding international fund transfer for businesses, visit www.payoneer.com.
About Payoneer
Payoneer provides an industry-leading global payment platform that connects thousands of businesses with millions of trading partners and professionals worldwide, removing the limitations that typically impede cross-border commerce. Payoneer enables companies to send payments to over 200 countries and territories as easily as if they were making local payments, while professionals and small businesses worldwide can immediately receive funds for services provided or products sold, no matter where they are. For payers and payees alike, Payoneer ensures smooth, cost-effective, secure, compliant transactions. Our range of flexible payout options includes transfers to local banks worldwide, prepaid debit cards, international wire transfers and local eWallets. Venture-backed and profitable, Payoneer is ranked in the top 100 of the Inc. 500 Financial Service companies. For more information, visit us at www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About Ping An
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. was established in 1988 in Shenzhen, China. Today, it has developed into a personal integrated financial services group with three core businesses of insurance, banking and investment. The Group's shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 2318) and on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 601318).
Ping An was ranked No.181 in U.S. Fortune's Global 500 ranking, and No.1 among China's non-State owned enterprises. Ping An has about 557,000 life insurance sales agents and 203,000 full-time employees. As of 31 December 2013, the Group's consolidated total assets and equity attributable to shareholders of the parent company reached RMB3.36 trillion and RMB182.709 billion, respectively. For more information, visit at http://about.pingan.com/en/index.shtml.
CONTACT: Beth Kempton, Walker Sands Communications
pr@payoneer.com
312.241.1178

TradAir - provider of front office optimization solutions, today annunciated that Yapi Kredi, one of the biggest banks in Turkey, has chosen the TradAir Rate Engine and distribution solution for its global foreign exchange (FX) trading desk.
Yapi Kredi will use TradAir Rate Engine and Distribution, the only neutral price distribution network, to stream to various platforms as well as to Yapi Kredi's internal branch network. TradAir offers the largest market maker liquidity network including single dealer bank platforms as well as all major ECN, brokers and exchanges.
TradAir offers a modular suite of front office optimization solutions, including TradAir Rate Engine, TradAir Distribution, TradAir Aggregation, TradAir White Label and TradAir Algo. Using TradAir products, banks such as Yapi Kredi are able to provide better pricing for their customers and improve their distribution to and penetration of global markets, introducing new revenues.
Illit Geller, CEO, TradAir said: "We are delighted that Yapi Kredi, a leading and innovative Turkish bank, has chosen TradAir Rate Engine and Distribution for its global FX trading desk, delivering customized price distribution to its clients and branch network. As a result, Yapi Kredi will be able to participate in the FX market alongside the leading global banks on an equal footing. We look forward to working with Yapi Kredi and building on our relationship going forward."
TradAir's technology brings together all the functions of source selection, pricing, distribution, risk and order management as well as hedging in one single intuitive and customizable screen. Traders no longer need to view multiple screens to manage and participate in their local currency pricing/trading; instead they can focus on expanding their market opportunities.

NEW YORK, June 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way technology companies and SMEs send and receive cross-border payments, has received an investment from the investment arm of Ping An Group, a leading integrated financial services provider and the largest non-state-owned enterprise in China.
This endorsement by Ping An, along with collaboration to jointly promote the Payoneer brand and leverage Ping An's local know-how, will accelerate Payoneer's growth in China, enhance its customer relationships and further strengthen the value proposition Payoneer offers businesses throughout Asia and beyond.
"We share a strategic vision with Ping An of how we can help Chinese businesses grow their cross-border sales by facilitating scalable, efficient, cross-border payments services," said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. "This is a huge market opportunity and this financing is just the beginning of our collaboration with Ping An, solidifying Payoneer's position as the go-to payments company for businesses looking to scale in China, Asia and the rest of the world."
Ping An is one of the largest and most respected financial services providers in China and the world. Ping An was ranked No. 181 on the Fortune Global 500 Top Companies in 2013. As Ping An's three pillars of business – insurance, banking and investment – continue to thrive across more than 80 million customers, its investment in Payoneer serves as validation of Payoneer's growing brand, industry leadership and market opportunity in China.
"Payoneer has an exciting business strategy in China and offers payment solutions to marketplaces, ecommerce platforms, technology companies, professionals and small business owners around the world," said Jiang Zhang, Director of Ping An Ventures. "We are confident that this partnership will result in the addition of many value-added services and support Chinese business owners as they grow their sales around the world and support global companies as they expand in the fast-growing China market."
For more information on how Payoneer is expanding international fund transfer for businesses, visit www.payoneer.com.
About Payoneer
Payoneer provides an industry-leading global payment platform that connects thousands of businesses with millions of trading partners and professionals worldwide, removing the limitations that typically impede cross-border commerce. Payoneer enables companies to send payments to over 200 countries and territories as easily as if they were making local payments, while professionals and small businesses worldwide can immediately receive funds for services provided or products sold, no matter where they are. For payers and payees alike, Payoneer ensures smooth, cost-effective, secure, compliant transactions. Our range of flexible payout options includes transfers to local banks worldwide, prepaid debit cards, international wire transfers and local eWallets. Venture-backed and profitable, Payoneer is ranked in the top 100 of the Inc. 500 Financial Service companies. For more information, visit us at www.payoneer.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About Ping An
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. was established in 1988 in Shenzhen, China. Today, it has developed into a personal integrated financial services group with three core businesses of insurance, banking and investment. The Group's shares are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 2318) and on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 601318).
Ping An was ranked No.181 in U.S. Fortune's Global 500 ranking, and No.1 among China's non-State owned enterprises. Ping An has about 557,000 life insurance sales agents and 203,000 full-time employees. As of 31 December 2013, the Group's consolidated total assets and equity attributable to shareholders of the parent company reached RMB3.36 trillion and RMB182.709 billion, respectively. For more information, visit at http://about.pingan.com/en/index.shtml.
Beth Kempton, Walker Sands Communications
312.241.1178
- See more at: http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/06/09/642723/10085008/en/Payoneer-Secures-Strategic-Investment-From-Chinese-Financial-Services-Provider-Ping-An.html#sthash.tfn73HQ1.dpuf

NEW YORK, NY – June 3, 2014 — SundaySky, the creator of SmartVideo, today announced that it has appointed Mark Flaharty as the company’s executive vice president of advertising. Flaharty – a 20-year veteran of the digital marketing industry – comes to SundaySky from Criteo, a leading performance advertising technology company, where he built and led its North American business. At Criteo, he helped to define personalized advertising strategy, which he couples with his years of experience in video and digital advertising at YouTube and Google, for his new position at SundaySky
At SundaySky, Flaharty will oversee all aspects of SmartVideo advertising, including product and partner strategies. He will play a key role in optimizing sales, account management and performance measurement to keep SundaySky’s SmartVideo technology at the forefront of industry developments.
“As SundaySky continues to build a market category for SmartVideo technology for leading customer-centric brands across the consumer lifecycle, it is invaluable to have people with not just years of experience, but also roles in shaping where the industry is today on the team,” said Jim Dicso, president and chief revenue officer of SundaySky. “Mark’s past work in the industry will continue to help make SmartVideo the gold standard in online video for years to come and achieve our mission to create the most effective personalized, real-time video experiences possible for our customers.”
Flaharty said, “I joined SundaySky because I’m able to combine my previous work experiences with advertising, technology and video, and apply them to help brands combine the powers of video and data to drive truly personalized video marketing strategies at scale. The SundaySky team’s intelligence and vision on how to help brand marketers use data and personalization to increase consumer loyalty and business impact is the future of video marketing.”

TradAir, the front office optimization solutions provider, today announces that Raiffeisen Polbank, a leading corporate and investment bank in Central and Eastern Europe, has selected and gone live with TradAir Rate Engine & TradAir Distribution for its foreign exchange (FX) global trading desk.
Raiffeisen Polbank joins a group of other leading banks around the world that use TradAir services to enhance their FX trading capabilities. The TradAir Rate Engine supports price creation across trading venues utilizing algorithms for better pricing alongside data analysis and liquidity management for optimization. TradAir Distribution is the largest market making focused network and streams to all venues, including banks' own internal systems. TradAir's vast liquidity network connects to all single dealing bank platforms as well as to all the major FX multi dealers, ECNs, Brokers and Exchanges. The solution offers banks liquidity management, business functionality, customer reach and trading power through the most advanced technology.
TradAir's technology brings together all the functions of source selection, pricing, distribution, risk and order management as well as hedging in one single intuitive and customizable screen. Traders no longer need to view multiple screens to manage and participate in their local currency pricing/trading, allowing them to focus on expanding their market opportunities.
Illit Geller, CEO, TradAir said: "We are delighted to work with Raiffeisen Polbank, which is a leader in its market with an innovative trading strategy and strong team. Together we have been able to rapidly implement the TradAir Rate Engine and TradAir Distribution solutions and we are looking forward to working with Raiffeisen Polbank as it continues to increase efficiencies and extend its global reach."
Marcin Żółtaniecki, Director of Trading at Raiffeisen Polbank said: "We are pleased to join TradAir's growing list of customers. We were impressed with how quick and problem free the go-live process was and we look forward to a long lasting and growing relationship together. TradAir is a real trusted advisor in addition to its great technology."

LiveU, specialists in portable live video acquisition, contribution and management solutions, has announced that hundreds of LiveU units have been deployed by India’s top broadcasters and online media to boost their live reporting of the Indian General Elections, said to be the world’s biggest elections. LiveU units have increased newsgathering capabilities for India’s top broadcasters such as ANI, Network 18, Times Now, Aajtak, ETV Network, News Wire Services, GTPL, Bansal News, TV9, Jaya TV, Sun TV, Zee Network and others.
To meet the demands of the campaign trail, increased numbers of LiveU units have been provided to customers around India on a long-term and short-term basis. Onsite service and support is being provided nationwide by Lamhas Satellite Services Ltd., LiveU’s local partner in India.
Piyush Gupta, Operations Director and CTO – Broadcast, Network 18, explains: “We needed to increase our coverage capabilities during the Elections. LiveU, our preferred vendor since the emergence of cellular bonding, responded immediately with the fast delivery of equipment. Supported by the local Lamhas team, we’ve been able to transmit live coverage of the campaign around the country with ad hoc interviews and press conferences. Both LiveU and Lamhas have proved to be trusted partners at this critical time.”
An important part of the deployment has been LiveU’s new smaller, stronger LU500 uplink unit offering optimal video performance and reliability in a lightweight unit, weighing less than 1 kg (2.2 lbs). The LTE-ready LU500 is compatible with Indian networks.

Goldman Sachs-Led Investment Underscores Company’s Record Growth, Customer Momentum, Product Innovation
SAN MATEO, Calif. – May 21, 2014 – Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced that it has closed a $35 million venture funding round led by Goldman Sachs & Co. This latest Series F investment round brings Clarizen’s total funding to date to $90 million. All existing investors also participated in the round, including Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures, DAG Ventures, Opus Capital, Vintage Investment Partners and Viola Credit. The company will use this latest funding round to expand global market share, focusing on customer success, including onboarding and support, and continuing product innovation to support the enterprise market.
This Goldman Sachs-led investment strengthens Clarizen’s company and customer-related momentum. Clarizen, with more than 2,000 customers in 76 countries, recently reported nearly 100 percent quarter-over-quarter growth and the addition of 230 customers, including Electronic Arts, Sony and one of the Big Four audit firms.
“Enterprise work collaboration is transforming the way global organizations succeed and Clarizen is leading enterprises into 21st century decision-making and execution,” said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO, Clarizen. “Goldman Sachs has a proven track record funding growing companies that are moving toward an IPO and its partnership underscores the continued momentum of both Clarizen and the enterprise work collaboration space.”
“Unlike other SaaS companies that focus primarily on selling to a functional department within organizations, Clarizen targets all employees wall-to-wall across enterprises, which suggests the magnitude of the opportunity. Clarizen’s opportunity is across verticals, across geographies, across functional departments, and across customer segments,” stated Michael Huang, Senior Research Analyst - SaaS/Application Software, in a recent Needham and Company report.
Clarizen has transformed work collaboration with its award-winning product for the enterprise and mid-market, Clarizen v6. This new investment will allow Clarizen to build on its market-leading v6 platform, keeping one step ahead of the product innovation curve.
Clarizen continues to add an array of product and company-related awards and distinctions to its roster. Key 2014 highlights include:
• Ranking in the “Champion” quadrant of Info-Tech Research Group‘s 2014 Mid-Market Project and Portfolio (PPM) Vendor Landscape report. Clarizen also won the report’s “Trend Setter Award” presented to “only those solutions that are deemed to include the most original/inventive product/service, or the most original/inventive feature/capability of a product/service.”
• Winning Business Intelligence Group’s 2014 “BIG Innovation Award,” presented to organizations/people that bring new ideas to life and change the way we experience the world, for Clarizen v6.
• Ranking in the 2014 KMWorld list of “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management.” The list is compiled during a year-long collaborative effort among colleagues, analysts, system integrators and a select group of users and highlights companies that best fulfill the goal of delivering the right information to the right people at the right time.
Clarizen also announced the appointment of Hillel Moerman, Co-Head, Private Capital Investing Group (“PCI”), Goldman Sachs, to its board of directors and Holger Staude, also a member of PCI, as board observer. PCI is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to growth and middle market companies.
“Clarizen’s strong management team and customer-proven product have positioned the company to be a global leader in the enterprise work collaboration space,” said Hillel Moerman. “We see strong market growth potential, as virtually every company can use project management/collaboration software. The company continues its product innovation, and we are pleased to contribute to Clarizen’s overall product, market and company success.”
About Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing
Private Capital Investing (“PCI”) is Goldman Sachs’ investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to growth and middle market companies based in North America. PCI invests $20 million - $150 million of equity per transaction in the form of common, preferred, and structured equity. Contact: pci@gs.com
About Clarizen
Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2006, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.
Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Jen Howard
Clarizen
650-544-2937
jen.howard@clarizen.com

LuckyFish Games, a developer of luck-based social games for mobile devices and social networks, announced today the closing of $1.6 million in Series A funding from Carmel Ventures, a member of the Viola Group. This is the first investment of Carmel Ventures in this area, led by Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Carmel who also joined the Company’s board of directors. LuckyFish Games recently launched its first collection of social games, OMG! Fortune, on Facebook.
LuckyFish Games is a pioneer in creating content which combines unique fortune games with casual gaming mechanics together with traditional fortune games in social media.
The company, with 21 live games to date, was founded at the end of 2012 by Roi Fishman, formerly from online gaming company 888. LuckyFish has approximately 200,000 daily active players, close to one million monthly active players, and is growing rapidly. The company has already started recording initial revenues.
In addition to its Facebook platform activity, LuckyFish will launch an Android version of OMG! Fortune in the coming days and an iOS version by next month.
Roi Fishman, Founder and CEO of Lucky Fish said: “This funding will allow us to capture the rapidly evolving opportunity in the growing market of social gaming as a whole and social fortune games in particular. We are excited about the coming launch of our Android and iOS game versions and the rapid growth of our community of fans. The partnership with Carmel Ventures is also a validation of our innovative viral offering and our business model.”
Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Carmel Ventures added: “We found LuckyFish to have a unique combination of a professional management team, exclusive content, and a cutting edge BI system which enables real-time analysis. These are the key factors to LuckyFish’s growth in a very exciting market.”
LuckyFish Games’ OMG! Fortune is a free multi-platform (Facebook, Android, iOS coming soon) game where players can purchase virtual items, win prizes and enjoy social features that enrich the player experience.
LuckyFish has twelve employees in Ramat-Gan, Israel and additional staff in Eastern Europe. LuckyFish is planning to double its team in the coming year and is looking for brilliant people in the areas of marketing and data analysis.
About LuckyFish
LuckyFish Games developed a unique Fortune Games Platform which operates across social networks. Based on its unique platform, LuckyFish developed OMG! Fortune, the world’s 1st Facebook Fortune Games application. The application contains a variety of creative, colorful and user friendly Fortune Games. Unlike pure gambling games, LuckyFish’s games do not enable payouts and are based on micropayments only. For more information please visit: www.luckyfishgames.com.
About Carmel Ventures
As Israel’s top tier VC firm, Carmel invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early stage companies and builds global category leaders across a number of key market segments, including: software, new enterprise infrastructure, Big Data, digital media, consumer applications and semiconductors. For more information, please visit: www.carmelventures.com. Carmel is a member of the Viola Group, Israel’s premier technology-focused PE group with over $2B under management.

Cloud IT Service Management provider named finalist for Service Desk Institute IT Service & Support Best Vendor Awards, honored by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand 2014 Top 100 Companies to Watch
Cary, N.C. — May 16, 2014 — Samanage,provider of the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market, today announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Service Desk Institute (SDI) IT Service & Support Best Vendor Awards, and recognized by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand 2014 Top 100 Companies to Watch.
The prestigious SDI IT Service & Support Awards, now in its 19th year, are recognized as the most coveted awards in the IT service and support industry. The awards are a customer-driven accolade, as customers vote for suppliers by answering a series of questions based on SDI’s service desk best practice standards. This unique award is presented to the vendor who best demonstrates how their customer service positively impacts their clients’ business and service desk operations. Only the top three suppliers with the highest customer ratings are announced as finalists, and are invited to interview with a judging panel as the last component of the evaluation process. The “Best Vendor” will be honored at the SDI Annual Conference on June 18, 2014 in London.
“We’re honored that our customers think so highly of the strategic value we provide to their organizations,” said Doron Gordon, Samanage CEO. “To be recognized for the excellence, professionalism, innovations, and achievements our team makes that contribute to the success of our customers’ business, solidifies our commitment to providing the best service and value to our customers everyday.”
Inclusion in the AlwaysOn OnDemand 2014 Top 100 Companies to Watch signifies leadership amongst peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Samanage was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. The OnDemand Companies to Watch will be honored at the OnDemand 2014 event, to be held June 4th, 2014, in San Mateo, CA.
Today’s recognition comes on the heels of the company’sannouncement that it was named a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures. Samanage also recently announced the company is first-to-market with automatic warranty capture management supporting all leading computer vendors, including Apple.
“This has been a tremendous year-to-date for Samanage, demonstrated by our record revenue growth, continuous product innovations, and industry accolades,” said Gordon. “We continue gaining momentum with mid-market and emerging enterprise organizations and are honored to be recognized by our customers and the industry for the innovation we bring to the service management industry.”
About Samanage
Samanage provides the only true multi-tenant, unified service desk and asset management cloud solution on the market today. Our revolutionary user interface delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust IT Service Management (ITSM) solution in only 14 days. We are uniquely able to deliver both simplicity and strength to customers in the form of instant value, user-friendly functionality, and feature-rich and “future-proof” capabilities. Our goal is to help customers deliver a superior service experience to their end users, and real value throughout their organization by improving asset control, empowering end users, and maximizing resources. Learn more at:http://www.samanage.com.

Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company headquartered in New York, today announced it has completed a Series D financing round of $25 million. Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the financial services industry and an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group, LLP, led the investment, with participation from existing investors Carmel Ventures, Greylock IL and Vintage Venture Partners.
Payoneer empowers cross-border commerce by providing a payment platform that connects thousands of companies with millions of professionals and small business owners from more than 200 countries. A profitable company with a four-year revenue CAGR of over 65%, Payoneer intends to continue its rapid growth by utilizing this new capital to accelerate its product roadmap, expand into new verticals and markets and increase sales and marketing investments, as well as enable the company to more actively pursue acquisitions.
"This new funding will help us expand our position as the leading provider of payment solutions that connect marketplaces, ecommerce platforms, technology companies, professionals and small business owners from around the world," said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. "We are thrilled to welcome Susquehanna Growth Equity as the lead investor in this round and look forward to leveraging their deep industry knowledge and expertise to take Payoneer's growth to the next level. All of our investment partners share our vision to empower global commerce by transforming the way small businesses around the world get paid for selling products and services across borders."
"Payoneer has revolutionized the way businesses are able to send and receive cross-border payments. Payoneer's flexible, secure platform helps companies accelerate global business, as evidenced by the company's exceptional growth over the past several years," said Amir Goldman, Managing Director of Susquehanna Growth Equity. "Payoneer has built a trusted global brand and we look forward to working with the Payoneer team to continue to capitalize on the exciting opportunities in the $50 trillion global market for cross-border business payments."
"Payoneer has clearly positioned itself as the category leader in this fast-growing market. We are very happy to welcome Susquehanna Growth Equity to our strong group of investors, all of whom are committed to the long term success of Payoneer and strongly believe in its compelling mission and big vision," said Avi Zeevi, Chairman of Payoneer and Co-Founder and General Partner at Carmel Ventures.
Upon regulatory approval, Amir Goldman is expected to join Payoneer's Board of Directors.

eXelate, the leading smart data and analytics engine powering smarter digital marketing decisions, today announced plans for additional hires in its Israel office, following a year of stellar accomplishments and major milestones. Founded in Israel in 2007, eXelate grew its research and development team in Kfar-Saba by more than 50 percent in 2013 and plans to continue increasing this group’s headcount by 30 percent in 2014. Currently, the company is seeking to fill open positions focused on real-time data analytics, mobile, tablet and cross-device technologies, and it plans to invest in larger office space to accommodate its growing team in Israel this year.

eXelate, which has offices around the globe and is headquartered in New York, recently earned three berths on prestigious industry lists. The company was named a Top 50 Most Promising Companies in Israel by the 2013 Calcalist. Additionally, it was ranked 86th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America. eXelate also placed in the top 20 Internet technology providers on the list. Just last month, eXelate was named one of America’s Most Promising Companies by Forbes.“I’m extremely proud of eXelate’s achievements over the past year, and our success relies on investment in top talent across the globe,” said Mark Zagorski (pictured), CEO of eXelate. ”The research and development team in Israel played an integral role in the launch and enhancement of our smart data solutions in 2013, like our consumer insights terminal eXelate optiX™, and I’m looking forward to more innovations from our current and future team members in the year ahead.”In addition to eXelate’s Israel office being the primary hub of the company’s research and development team, it is also the home of the Big Data eXposed Summit, eXelate’s annual conference focused on the role of big data in marketing. The third annual event in the series will take place in Tel Aviv in Q3 2014.“Maintaining and growing the team in Israel is an important aspect of eXelate’s culture, and we continue to be impressed with the innovative thinking and fresh ideas coming out of our team in the region,” said Oren Katz, VP, research and development, general manager, Israel. “As we grow and, ultimately, move into new office space in Israel this year, we will continue to recruit premium Java and front-end developers who can immediately contribute within an open, collaborative, learning environment.”eXelate has immediate opportunities for Java and front-end developers in its Israel office. Interested parties are encouraged to visit:http://exelate.com/about-us/careers.About eXelateeXelate is the smart data company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions worldwide for marketers, agencies, platforms, publishers and data providers. eXelate’s smart data platform provides accurate, actionable, and agile data and analytics on online household demographics, purchase intent, and behavioral propensities. Through the collection of trillions of directly measured online data points and distribution partnerships with information leaders such as Nielsen, MasterCard Advisors, Bizo, and more, eXelate makes online, offline, and custom modeled data sets actionable across 800M online consumers worldwide. As members of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising, and Evidon’s Open Data Partnership, eXelate is a leader in privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit http://www.exelate.com or follow @eXelate.

CoolaData, the most advanced provider of behavioral analytics, today announced the General Availability (GA) of its behavioral data service. CoolaData disrupts the current state of analytics by offering an end-to-end platform and actionable tools to analyze WHY people behave as they do in mobile and web environments.(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140206/667615-INFO )CoolaData's open, scalable platform enables flexible access, unifying a variety of internal and external data sources and providing a cost effective alternative to self-developed analytics solutions. The service has been in Beta for the past six months with eCommerce and gaming companies that leveraged it to predict future purchasing patterns, increase customer acquisition, reduce churn rates and improve revenue streams, retention, conversion and win-back ratios.CoolaData's CEO Tomer Ben Moshe commented: "CoolaData is the most advanced behavioral data service in the market. It provides emerging online companies with capabilities which have traditionally been available only to large corporations with in-house development resources. We've given our customers access to a simple, yet powerful service with which to understand, for example, the most popular paths that lead to churn and conversion. Or to target people who purchase once and return but don't buy again, and then reach out to them with the right messaging.""mySupermarket is a data-driven business with complex analytical needs," said mySupermarket CEO, Allon Bloch. "CoolaData's service helps us find answers to deep business questions, even questions which are clearly specific to our specialized service."CoolaData's unique attributes include:Predictive analytics for early detection of customer LTV and churn.Deep behavioral, customized business KPIs for the identification, management and tracking of business goals.Unified analysis across platforms and data sources.A realtime operational system for immediate impact."It has been great to see CoolaData build this innovative behavioral data service on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing Google's highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure for their applications," said Barak Regev, Head of Google Cloud Platform in EMEA. "CoolaData is presenting a real alternative to self-development, saving resources for customers and benefiting from Google Cloud Platform for consistent performance and scalability."

Read more at http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/The-CoolaData-Service-is-Now-Generally-Available-Offering-a-Unique-Behavioral-Analytics-Data-Service-20140206#5DDfULW6UxEik8Bl.99

World-leading digital distribution company ironSource announced today a friendly new native ad format called Stickeez now available on the mobileCore application distribution & monetization platform.Stickeez presents users with a small, engaging and animated element that calls users to action. When users press on the friendly character, a small layout appears, showing users mobileCore offers, or alternatively, taking the user directly to Google Play or other app stores, and offering an application to download.Using the mobileCore Developers' Panel, app developers may select images from the Stickeez gallery or incorporate their own in-app characters for a truly native ad experience. The developers may then define when the Stickeez should appear, monitor performance and adjust conditions accordingly.mobileCore may create custom branded Stickeez for advertisers for the promotion of specific apps. Itay Riemer, Head of Mobile at ironSource, commented, "mobileCore's Stickeez are not just adorable...they deliver strong results. We are proud to launch Stickeez, another effective monetization tool for app developers that drives revenue while protecting the users' in-app experience."

Read more at http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/ironSource-Launches-Unique-Native-Advertising-Format-Called-Stickeez-at-Apps-World-2014-20140205#U3veDQMuJJthZi74.99

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced that it has completed its strongest quarter yet, including the signing of a multi-million dollar deal with one of the Big Four audit firms. Other highlights include ranking in the top 15 in Deloitte's Fast 500 EMEA and Clarizen's expanded integration with Box, making it one of the first solutions to leverage both Box Embed and Box's document viewing technology. Clarizen V6 redefines collaboration for the enterprise by organically creating a "work graph" that connects conversations, actions and deliverables to help organizations achieve operational excellence. By delivering a powerful combination of true social engagement and powerful project management, Clarizen posted a quarter-over-quarter bookings increase of nearly 100 percent. Clarizen also added over 230 clients to its customer base including Electronic Arts, Sony, and Porto Seguro, Brazil's third largest insurance company."During our selection process, Clarizen was easily the best," said Eder M. Lima, IT administrator at Sony Brasil Ltda. "The system is a great fit for our requirements and was an instant hit with our project team due to its look, feel, functionality and ease-of-use. We look forward to using Clarizen in 2014 and beyond to empower our high-performance teams.""I am delighted to report that Q4 of 2013 was clearly the strongest quarter in Clarizen's history," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO and co-founder of Clarizen. "In addition, our enterprise business was particularly robust, sending a clear message that Clarizen has the right solution to serve a large market on critical business processes. Our success in turning organizations into highly effective, real-time operations and the superiority of our award-winning product make Clarizen an undoubted leader in enterprise work collaboration."Other Q4 highlights include:Ranking as the twelfth fastest-growing company in the 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Clarizen's impressive growth rate of 8,453 percent between 2008 and 2012 underscores the company's growing market momentum and the increasing need for organizations to deliver collaboration that drives results.

An expanded integration with Box, making Clarizen one of the first solutions to leverage both Box Embed, a robust HTML5 framework that makes it simple to embed the entire Box experience anywhere people work, and Box's document viewing technology. Through these integrations, organizations can easily and securely access, view, annotate and attach existing files from Box to projects, milestones, tasks and cases within Clarizen.

The release of its new Google Chrome Extension, enabling users to seamlessly add tasks, cases and screenshots to their Clarizen account from any web page in a Chrome browser window. The free-of-charge extension enables teams in all departments to work more efficiently and achieve better results -- faster.

Winning the gold in the Fastest-Growing Company category in Best in Biz Awards 2013, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

The Work Graph The way most companies work is broken. First we build work groups, and then we engage in conversations, which may become actions and, ideally, these actions become deliverables. Each of these typically live in disconnected "islands" of activity, managed by different systems. Clarizen is different in that it connects these islands into a "work graph" that is organically created through the act of getting work done. The work graph enables collaboration that drives results, turning every organization into a high-performance, real-time operation.About ClarizenClarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.MEDIA CONTACT:Jen HowardClarizen650-544-2937

Tuesday was Media Day for the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, and LiveU was there. The company specializes in compact devices that upload live video from remote locations using bonded cellular connections, and both Super Bowl contenders are clients. Throughout the lead up to game day, both are using LiveU equipment to stream video to team sites and apps, showing activities around the Jersey City, New Jersey hotels where both are staying. They'll use LiveU equipment on Super Bowl Sunday itself, says Ken Zamkow, director of sales and marketing for LiveU, to show pregame warm-ups and post game coverage, footage that won't be available to TV viewers. Each team has between two and four LiveU backpacks, he estimates.They're not the only LiveU clients in the New York/New Jersey area this week. Around 20 networks and online sites are using LiveU, including Fox News, CBS Sports, TMZ, local Denver and Seattle stations, and international broadcasters such as Fox Sports Mexico. All totaled, they're using around 50 LiveU backpacks.While this is an exciting place to be, LiveU is a seasoned veteran. This is the company's fifth Super Bowl. LiveU backpacks were first used in Miami, Florida, in Super Bowl 44. At the time, its devices relied on 3G coverage; now they use 4G LTE, when available. The difference in video quality is noticeable."We've seen live shots that in may cases look just like satellite," Zamkow says. It's usually easy for broadcasters to get a strong signal to upload their live footage. If one street corner has a weak signal, users only need to walk a few steps to get a better one. "There haven't been many challenges this year," he notes, adding that the company's Xtender antenna helps with uploads.The most popular way to get a LiveU unit is to take a long-term lease for one or two years. It's a turnkey offering that provides all the hardware, software, and data plans needed. Some companies prefer to purchase backpacks, while others take on short-term rentals.LiveU has bigger events coming once the Super Bowl is done. Zamkow estimates there will be around 50 LiveU backpacks in use around the Winter Olympics at Sochi (smaller than the over 100 units used in the London Olympics because fewer countries want live coverage). The FIFA World Cup takes place this summer in Brazil, and LiveU should have over 100 units in use.For now, though, LiveU is making sure streaming is smooth for the big game in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Zamkow says he won't be onsite, but will watch the game in New York City with friends. Who will he be rooting for? "No comment," he says. That's probably a good idea, since both teams -- and half the NFL -- are clients.

Samanage, the leader in cloud-based, integrated Service Desk and IT Asset Management software, today announced that their customer base has tripled over the past 12 months. The customer base is diversified across 42 countries and multiple industry sectors, the most prominent being Healthcare, Education, and State/Local Government. New customers include Mesa Labs, Nutrisystem, and Washington Health Benefit Exchange. The company attributes its growth to its easy-to-use and innovative SaaS multi-tenant technology, which delivers the fastest time to value in the industry and a user experience that is unparalleled. To meet the rapidly increasing market demand for its solutions, Samanage doubled its workforce in 2013 and plans to add 30 more employees in 2014.“We continue to grab market share by challenging legacy on-premise IT Service Management vendors and offering easy-to-use and robust cloud-based IT service desk,” said Doron Gordon, Founder and CEO. “We see a growing interest in cloud-based products as companies look for more cost effective solutions that are easier to use and maintain.”With its pure SaaS multi-tenant platform, Samanage is able to update its software across all customers simultaneously- everyone is always on the latest version. That translates into rapid innovation and responsiveness to customer requests. In 2013 the solution was enhanced daily, with more than 800 upgrades deployed during the course of the year - all with no effort on the customer side. One of the most lauded additions last year was the extended Service Desk, enabling departments other than IT to streamline service requests and improve communications between employees and the internal service providers, such as Human Resources, Facility Management, Marketing and Purchasing. Samanage also introduced improved Service Level Management, Customer Satisfaction, automated integration of computer warranty information and email customization, among many other features and enhancements. The product integration with several key players such as Google Apps, Chatter, Dropbox, Zendesk, Salesforce, OKTA, OneLogin, Chatter and Zapier was tightened as well.“The little things all added up – the mobile support…QR and BAR codes… custom fields,” said Ben Miller, Knox County School District of Tennessee. “We have come to admire the software.”About SamanageSamanage is a leading provider of secure, SaaS-based IT Service Management Solutions that help companies manage their IT assets, deliver an ITIL-based IT Service Desk, organize their software licenses and IT contracts, and detect risks and license compliance gaps. Delivered as a SaaS service with no software or servers required, Samanage empowers companies of all sizes with capabilities that were previously available only to large companies. Samanage is easily deployed across multiple locations within minutes and provides visibility into complex IT infrastructures, making it easy to automate and simplify the daily tasks associated with establishing IT governance, control, and compliance. Samanage is backed by Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israel Ventures. Learn more at: http://www.Samanage.com/.

Read more: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2014/01/28/samanage-continues-record-revenue-growth-and-triples-its-business-2013#ixzz2rnNG2jaJRead more at http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2014/01/28/samanage-continues-record-revenue-growth-and-triples-its-business-2013#fpzUuZKEXCY0uJkp.99

Parallel processing chip design firm Adapteva has raised $3.6 million in a round of funding from Carmel Ventures and telecommunications firm Ericsson.The Lexington, Mass.-based company will use the money to complete prototypes for its chips that it touts as energy-efficient parallel computing chips. The deal is a big endorsement for Adapteva’s technology, which can be used to provide energy-efficient parallel processing in telecommunications basestations — such as those made by Ericsson — and a variety of other supercomputing devices.The funding comes on the heels of the company’s success in the fall of 2012 when it raised almost $900,000 on Kickstarter to build a $99 Parallella supercomputer for everyone. That campaign was part of the company’s effort to build community support around its hardware among hobbyists and other hardware enthusiasts.Adapteva was founded in 2008 to develop a brand new architecture with a focus on energy-efficient chips. It designed a 16-core parallel processing accelerator and a 64-core chip in 2011. Now it is trying to bring those Epiphany chips, which can operate on 2 watts of power, to manufacturing. The processors can deliver about five gigaflops of performance per watt.AdaptevaAndreas Olofsson of Adapteva

Most chip projects costs huge amounts of money and use lots of engineers. But Adapteva has made it this far with just five people. The new funding will keep the dream of building a new chip architecture alive.“We’ve been waiting for our moment to come and I think we are almost there,” Andreas Olofsson, chief executive and founder of Adapteva, in an interview with VentureBeat. “We’ve been running on a very low capital structure for six years now. Selling a new processor architecture is almost impossible. But we have one of the most efficient chips in the world.”Olofsson said that Adapteva’s parallel processors — which have many brains, or cores, working at once — offer a 25 times edge in computing efficiency when compared to older approaches.“The potential for major returns in energy efficiency and performance gained from parallel processing are clear, and in fact critical, to support rapid growth in the telecoms industry. This makes innovations such as Adapteva’s very exciting for Ericsson and for the customers we work with,” said Sebastian Tolstoy, Ericsson vice president of business development.To try to bring Adapteva’s chips to a wider market, Adapteva launched Parallella, a tiny supercomputer, in 2012. The Kickstarter campaign raised money to develop a $99 circuit board for Kickstarter donors. In doing that, Adapteva followed in the footsteps of fan-hyped hardware companies like Rasberry Pi, the credit-card sized computer that can play games like Quake.It hasn’t delivered the boards to its 6,300 Kickstarter backers yet, but Olofsson said the company would do so now that it has more money. Shipments are targeted to be completed by the end of the first quarter.Open source community members are contributing software for Adapteva. Olofsson said the company can chain multiple Epiphany chips together for a total of 4,096 cores in a system. That could be useful in scientific computing, telecommunications, and embedded vision.“We’re going to be the most open chip company around,” Olofsson said.Adapteva will compete with rivals such as Tilera, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM, and Intel. So far, 8,500 systems have been preordered. Olofsson said 140 universities are collaborating with Adapteva to educate students on parallel computing, and there’s a fairly large scientific computing customer waiting in the wings. Olofsson has more than 20 patents issued or pending. He’s a former chip designer for Analog Devices.“Parallel processing and high performance computing (HPC) are of huge interest to us as these markets are developing quickly and changing dramatically,” said Ori Bendori, partner at Carmel Ventures. “Adapteva’s approach is very different than the traditional silicon vendor model and we believe this could lead an industry transformation – just the type of innovation we like to invest in.”

World-leading digital distribution company, ironSource announced today that it has customized the SDK of its popular Android app platform mobileCore for use with ai.type's free Android keyboard. ai.type is a world-leading Android keyboard, enabling next word prediction, completion, correction and spelling and grammar check as the user types. It’s among the 10 leading productivity apps in over 35 countries. ai.type offers both unpaid and premium versions of its app. As ai.type runs as a service on Android devices, it cannot display ads beyond the boundaries of the keyboard. Many users of the trial version of the service upgrade to the paid version, but the company was limited in how it could monetize users that did not upgrade. With the mobileCore integration, following a trial period a promotional button on the word prediction line is shown to those ai.type users that had not yet upgraded to the paid version of the service, and who the company determines using statistical data, is not likely to upgrade.This allows ai.type to earn revenue from frequent users of their service that they otherwise would not be able to monetize. This raised overall revenue dramatically, without affecting user experience. ai.type CEO & Founder Eitan Fitusi said, "Working together with mobileCore has definitely paid off. Our overall revenue has grown by about 25% using the mobileCore platform."ironSource Head of Mobile Itay Riemer added, "Our partnership with ai.type encouraged us to push our creative thinking to develop an entirely new solution with lucrative results. This is what mobileCore is about - finding new, transparent, user-friendly ways to support gifted app developers." mobileCore will present its platform and solutions at AppsWorld 2014, booth 159, February 5-6, 2014 in San Francisco. About ai.typeai.type develops smart input software with advanced context aware, cloud based features. aitype's Android Keyboard is installed on over 10 million devices around the world and enables next word prediction, completion, correction, spelling and grammar check as you type. http://aitype.com/About mobileCoremobileCore is an app monetization and distribution platform focusing on user engagement. mobileCore is developed by global digital delivery company ironSource, and offers a number of tools and services for mobile app developers to distribute and monetize their applications. With rich experience and data driven systems, the mobileCore team creates solutions that fit independent developers and huge brands alike. Learn more about mobileCore at http://www.mobilecore.com/.About ironSourceironSource, a world leading digital distribution company, offers a complete ecosystem for downloadable applications including all aspects of user acquisition, conversion, monetization, integrated analytics and optimization. ironSource platforms include installCore, mobileCore, AfterDownload, CAST and kudosKit. Founded in 2009 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, ironSource is a privately held company backed by Carmel Ventures, an affiliate of the Viola Group. For more information, please visit us at http://www.ironsrc.com.

Swisscom contracted cVidya, a provider of revenue analytics products for communications and digital service providers, to deploy cVidya's Prospero system to manage the performance of 13,000 internal sales executives and external channel distributors. Using the sales and service performance management platform, Swisscom can set business rules, adapt incentives to sales strategy and manage large volumes of commission payments. Prospero also provides individual members of the sales force with a web portal where they can track their commission on a daily basis and analyse how they can optimise their performance within the incentive framework.As well as increasing the efficiency of the sales force, Prospero is enabling Swisscom to design incentive programmes that drive high-margin sales, lifting revenues and profits. By providing a high level of transparency and clarity, Prospero enables Swisscom’s managers, individual sales executives and channel partners to monitor their performance and adjust their approach accordingly.Able to draw on data from any OSS/BSS in the telecom environment, including customer care, billing, order management, ERP and inventory, Prospero can be used to simulate ‘what if’ scenarios, enabling a service provider to model the potential impact of changes in incentive programmes, for example. Swisscom is using the system to plan its targets and expected payments for 2014, improving the accuracy of its financial planning.

eXelate, the leading smart data and analytics engine powering smarter digital marketing decisions, today announced that it has named Deb Josephs SVP of Global Human Resources and Matt Bennathan as VP and Managing Director, UK. Both will play a key role in eXelate's drive toward new markets, new products and new revenue records in 2014. "As the demand from marketers and agencies for eXelate's products increases, we sought and found innovative thinkers and industry leaders to join us at the helm during this time of significant company growth," commented Mark S. Zagorski, CEO of eXelate. "Deb and Matt both possess proven leadership abilities and we're thrilled to bring them on board and tap into their unique expertise. Deb will lead our efforts to attract and develop a world-class team built to take our company to the next stage. Matt will lead our skyrocketing growth in the UK and work to further our position as the largest and most utilized advertising data platform in all of Europe."As SVP of Global Human Resources, Josephs will be responsible for all employee initiatives across eXelate's worldwide offices, including organizational effectiveness, talent acquisition, learning and development, and corporate culture as well as communication enhancement. Previously, Josephs ran human resources for Everyday Health, Inc., and was a member of the executive team that led DoubleClick through the successful purchase by Google. During this time, she implemented best practices in recruiting, leadership and executive development, succession planning, organizational design and HR strategy resulting in significant year over year revenue growth. Josephs previously held senior human resources positions within the McGraw-Hill Companies, Ogilvy & Mather, The Bank of New York, NASD/Nasdaq and NatWest Bank.With 16 years of experience in data-driven marketing, Bennathan, in his role as VP and Managing Director, UK, is tasked with contributing to the rapid growth of eXelate's UK business and operations across publishers, agencies, platforms and advertisers. In his previous roles, including head of digital partnerships with Callcredit Information Group, consultant with Digital Animal, launching WRM Media in Australia, and leadership positions across EDR, Transactis and Acxiom, Bennathan gained expertise in leveraging data-driven insights to drive advertising decisions through a focus on service levels, ideas, and results. He brings extensive knowledge of digital display, email, lead generation, affiliate, CRM, mail, database, analytics, SEO/PPC as well as long-standing relationships with UK advertisers, agencies, and publishers to his role with eXelate.About eXelateeXelate is the smart data company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions worldwide for marketers, agencies, platforms, publishers and data providers. eXelate's smart data platform provides accurate, actionable, and agile data and analytics on online household demographics, purchase intent, and behavioral propensities. Through the collection of trillions of directly measured online data points and distribution partnerships with information leaders such as Nielsen, MasterCard Advisors, Bizo, and more, eXelate makes online, offline, and custom modeled data sets actionable across 800M online consumers worldwide. As members of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising, and Evidon's Open Data Partnership, eXelate is a leader in privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit http://www.exelate.com or follow @eXelate.

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 10, 2013) - Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced it has been ranked the twelfth fastest-growing company in the 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Clarizen's impressive growth rate of 8453 percent between 2008 and 2012, underscores the company's growing market momentum and the increasing need for organizations to energize and empower high-performance teams.

"It is truly a remarkable accomplishment to be named among EMEA's 500 fastest-growing technology companies," said Clarizen CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski. "As we continue to see our business accelerate, we remain committed to our vision of leading the future of work by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Our success is determined by our customer's success and we truly thank Deloitte for this great honor."

Now in its 13th year, the annual Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) industry group's program ranks the fastest growing public and private technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies from 24 countries in the EMEA region, based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period. This year's Fast 500 list had an overall average revenue growth rate of 1,403 percent, a slight decrease from the 1,549 percent growth rate for 2012. This year's program received more than 1,000 submissions and the software sector represented 43 percent of the overall rankings, followed by the Internet sector with 22 percent.

The full list of ranked companies, as well as additional details on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 program, can be accessed at www.deloitte.com/fast500emea.

About the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ EMEA

Technology Fast 500, conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and green technology companies -- both public and private -- in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2009 to 2013. In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company's operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least 50,000 EUROS, and current-year operating revenues of at least 800,000 EUROS. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of five years, and be headquartered within Europe, Middle East & Africa.

About Clarizen

Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.

Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

myThings, a global leader in programmatic ad solutions, announced today the launch of its next generation platform - destined to set a new standard in transparency and customization of programmatic campaigns.(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131211/658869 )

The new platform is answering two pains of marketers who run real time programmatic ad campaigns: lack of transparency and template-based automation. It empowers advertisers by providing them with complete visibility into the performance patterns of their audience across all marketing channels, and creating fully customized programmatic campaigns capable of meeting their specific business goals.The platform's key features include:Enhanced transparency: A best-in-class analytics dashboard, CLARITY opens the black box by providing marketers with detailed, actionable insights into myThings' segmented campaigns on multiple levels, including:Media transparency: Domain and sub-domain level performance, top 50 publishers per network and win ratesSegment-level audience transparency: Full set of performance KPIs per segment, revenue by creative and segment by segment comparisonSegement-level creative performance: Performance KPIs per creative, revenue by segment, creative by creative comparisonMobile transparency: Android vs. iOS, in-app vs.mobile web (coming Jan. 2014)Cross-channel attribution insights: A complimentary multi-attribution suite powered by TagMan, providing a bird's eye view of the consumer's overall path to conversionBusiness-driven customization: myThings is redefining the customization of programmatic campaigns by focusing on the following elements:Customized segmentation: myThings is capable of delivering enhanced ad relevancy in line with an advertiser's unique business goals (such as recruitment, reactivation, repeat purchases and incremental demand). The ability to define granular, business-driven segments - well beyond "stage in funnel" or category - involve the use of multiple dimensions encompassing behavioral, engagement, value and CRM-based parameters.Customized creative: Unlike standard, template-based retargeting banners, myThings' ads start off on an empty canvas and are therefore able to combine the best of branding and direct response to deliver 100% bespoke creative.Customized pricing models: myThings' artificial intelligence algorithms are trained to maximize incremental sales regardless of the advertisers' preferred business model. myThings can therefore support a range of models - CPA, CPM and Cost Plus - as well as variable pricing per product, category or segment.In order to support its customized programmatic offering, myThings has developed a robust, flexible platform capable of integrating an advertiser's business rules throughout the entire programmatic ad campaign chain. The platform is centered on a data hub that performs big data analysis of anonymous user activity on a large scale and in real time, while providing a long term view of users - necessary for business-driven programmatic campaigns."Programmatic advertising has disrupted the industry with unrivaled efficiencies and improved ROI. However, more and more marketers tell us that performance is not enough and they seek added value. They want to understand the ins and outs of their campaigns and apply what they've learned across marketing activities. At myThings, we believe that to excel in today's space, programmatic advertising must be truly transparent and customized and that's exactly what our next generation platform is all about," commented CEO of myThings Benny Arbel.For more information on myThings' complete data-driven advertising suite, visit http://www.mythings.comAbout myThingsFounded in 2005, myThings is a global leader in customized programmatic ad solutions. Turning big data into incremental demand, the company personalizes over 5 billion impressions a month for top advertisers in 30 markets including Adidas, Walmart, ToysRUs, Littlewoods, Very.co.uk, Zalando, Orange, Best Buy, and Microsoft.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration, today announced it has won the gold in the Fastest-Growing Company category in Best in Biz Awards 2013, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts. Clarizen is redefining collaboration for the enterprise by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen drives true value by entwining the threads of conversation and execution into one central workspace to build high-performance teams and achieve operational excellence.

This latest acknowledgment follows Clarizen placing in the top five in a regional Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for company growth. Other recent accolades also include winning the 2013 SIIA CODiE for Best Project Management Software and Business Intelligence Group's 2013 "New Product of the Year" for Clarizen v6, the biggest product release in the company's history. "This year's Best in Biz Awards nominees offer services and products that reflect the most current trends in technology, from cloud computing through mobile devices to network connectivity," said Samara Lynn, lead analyst of networking and business at PC Magazine, judging her second Best in Biz Awards program. "Truly, all of the nominees and winners represent the ongoing innovation and trends in technology that we who cover the space see on a daily basis."

LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable live video-over-cellular solutions, has announced support for the non-profit John Lennon Educational Tour Bus and its original live stream productions known as @lennonbus. The shows are being streamed live using LiveU's beltclip LU40-S cellular transmission technology as well as its backpack LU70 to deliver live content to a wide audience. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a professional audio and HD video recording and production facility. Plans for Lennon Bus Europe have been evolving since the first U.S. Lennon Bus hit the road in 1998 with a mission to provide young people with access to state-of-the-art production studios. Staffed by a crew of three producer/engineers, the Bus is dedicated to providing the young people of Europe with free hands-on opportunities to produce original music, video, photo, game app and broadcast projects reflective of their ideas, values, and creativity.The John Lennon Bus Europe makes stops at local schools, colleges, concerts, festivals and professional trade shows; providing free tours and workshops in which young people produce original songs, audio recordings, broadcast quality music videos and live stream events.The John Lennon Bus turned to LiveU in order to broaden its streaming possibilities. Jeff Sobel, Chief Engineer, with the John Lennon Bus, said, "In the United States our bus is equipped with a roof-mounted satellite dish. While the dish is excellent technology, we found that we frequently wanted to produce live streams from locations away from the bus -- outdoor concerts, events inside schools or conferences, or moving from location to location. LiveU allows us to live stream from more locations, and cover different types of events than we have had open to us before."The technology has already been used to present live streams featuring Yoko Ono and recording artist Adel Tawil in Berlin, as well as a series of music education forums in association with the NAMM Foundation.Sobel said, "We're working more and more with LiveU and we're very pleased with the events that we've produced with the technology. Anyone interested in new music, video production, or learning new ways to be creative and inspired will want to tune in to the John Lennon Bus' live streams and we're looking forward to expanding our usage." The streams are available at www.facebook.com/lennonbus with the schedule available at http://europe.lennonbus.org. The technology has been supplied by LiveU's German partner Netorium. Ronen Artman, LiveU's VP Marketing, said, "It's a genuine pleasure to be involved in such an inspiring and philanthropic venture. Our technology is designed to provide mobility and ease of deployment which we're pleased to see the John Lennon Bus taking advantage of. We hope that it helps inspire creativity across the U.S. and Europe."LiveU owns the patent for cellular bonding for remote news gathering in the US and other countries. All LiveU products are based on this fourth-generation patented technology.About LiveULiveU is the pioneer of broadcast-quality, video-over-cellular solutions that allow live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions have been used for breaking news and high-profile events, including the 2012 US Presidential Campaign, London 2012 Olympics, Hurricane Sandy, 2011 British Royal Wedding, Japanese Tsunami, GRAMMY Awards® and Super Bowl. From backpacks to smartphones, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.About The John Lennon Educational Tour BusThe John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a non-profit state-of-the-art mobile Pro Audio and HD video recording facility that provides hands-on experiences for students of all ages. In its 16th year of touring, the Lennon Bus features the latest audio and video technology, gear and productsLennon Buses in the U.S. and Europe travel throughout the year, providing free experiences and workshops at schools, retailers, festivals, on tours with headlining artists, and at major industry conferences. The Bus is made possible through the generosity of sponsors including Avid, Apple, Montblanc, Sony, Neutrik, Musician's Friend, Thomann, Gibson, Epiphone, NAMM, True Religion, Genelec, Vox, NewTek, TodoCast, Mobile Roadie, Audio-Technica, Ableton, Roland, Boss, JamHub, Sonicbids, Disc Makers, Mackie, Ampeg, Digital Media Academy, Litepanels, Manfrotto, Clear-Com, Anton/Bauer, AJA, New Bay Media, Copperpeace, Apogee, Aphex, Glyph, Applied Acoustics Systems, McDSP, Native Instruments, IK Multimedia, Noise Industries, iZotope, Slingerland Drums, and Mad Mimi, Boingo, Solid State Logic, and SKB Cases. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is made possible by an agreement with Yoko Ono Lennon

Doro AB, the global market leader in easy-to-use mobile phones, is pleased to announce it has selected Red Bend Software to provide its smartphone users with firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates.

This relationship further strengthens Doro's commitment to offering a superior mobile experience to people who want an easy-to-use device. With Red Bend, Doro smartphone users will receive new versions of Android downloaded directly to their device in a fast, safe and convenient manner. This ensures that Doro users seamlessly receive the latest updates and improvements to keep their smartphones performing perfectly.

Red Bend will manage the end-to-end FOTA service, from hosting to delivery of new software updates. The service is included in the recently launched Doro Liberto 810, the Swedish company's recently launched easy-to-use Android smartphone. This sleek and stylish device brings a rich and inclusive smartphone experience to many more people by taking them on a positive journey with their technology. This partnership will make that journey even better.

Thomas Bergdahl, VP Product Development at Doro said: Doro is a pioneer in the mobile industry. We created the easy smartphone market and working with Red Bend will help us to facilitate the expansion of our value add service-led propositions. There is a clear future opportunity here for remotely managed lifestyle and support services. Again we have opened up a new market opportunity for operators, resellers and service providers.

"Over-the-air updating is the most efficient and reliable way to deliver new software to Android devices, and no one does this better than Red Bend. By working with Red Bend, Doro can ensure its smartphones are continuously updated, offer innovative services and deliver an exceptional user experience that keeps customers loyal, said Dean Martin, vice president of EMEA, at Red Bend Software.

Doro AB is a Swedish public company formed in 1974. It released its pioneering easy-to-use mobile phone in 2007 and today is the global market-leader within the category. Doro products and solutions are available in thirty countries spanning five continents. These include; mobile phones and smart devices, applications and software, fixed line telephony, telecare and mobile health solutions. Doro removes barriers to adoption of new technologies and holds numerous international awards in recognition of its product designs and innovations. Doro shares are quoted on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm exchange, Nordic List, Small Companies. Revenues of SEK 837.5 million were reported for 2012.

www.doro.com

About Red Bend

Red Bends OTA Updating Service for Android is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for device manufacturers to update mobile devices with the latest features, applications and improvements. The solution includes Red Bends vRapid Mobile and vDirect Mobile client software which are quickly integrated into any mobile device, and the Red Bend Software Management Center hosted in the cloud from which OEMs can manage devices over the air. Red Bend has been adopted by more than 80 manufacturers and operators to manage more than 1.75 billion mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices.

Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 1.75 billion Red Bend-Enabled devices, today announced that the company has reached the significant milestone of providing its vRapid Mobile firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating software in 150 million mobile phones manufactured by leading Chinese ODMs and OEMS including Huawei, ZTE, TCL, Lenovo, Haier, SIMCom, Leadcore, Borqs and Tianyu.

There are now more than 200 Red Bend-enabled mobile device models in China.

Globally, vRapid Mobile is adopted by more than 80 mobile operators and device manufacturers. It is the cornerstone software in mobile phones and connected devices used to provide new features, applications and operating system updates. vRapid Mobile is the most widely adopted FOTA solution because it provides the fastest and easiest way to remotely update software and it ensures 100% completion of software updates, even if there is a loss of power or network connection.

'Since entering the market in China 10 years ago, Red Bend has been honored to earn the trust of Chinese mobile operators such as China Mobile and dozens of Chinese OEMs and ODMs. Our understanding of the market, technological knowledge, OMA-standards-based solutions and local professional services ensure that our customers can keep devices updated and consumers satisfied,' said Danny Wang, Red Bend Software Country Manager of Greater China.

Some of the most popular Red Bend-Enabled devices available in China are:

The need for over-the-air software management is increasing as more and more devices become connected. Morgan Stanley predicts that there will be 75 billion connected devices by 2020. The 'Internet of Things' originally defined to include laptops and PCs now includes semiconductor technology embedded into all types of machine-to-machine (M2M) and consumer electronics.

'Red Bend is leveraging its success in mobile and bringing its solutions to other markets including the enterprise, automotive and M2M. All of the software inside the predicted 75 billion devices will need to be managed with the most trusted mobile software management solution. We are already helping automotive OEMs keep their IVI systems and electronic control units up to date, saving warranty and recall costs and increasing customer satisfaction and we are excited about the opportunities in other industries.'

About Red Bend Software

Red Bend Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 1.75 billion Red Bend-Enabled devices, makes mobile devices and services continuously better in a rapidly changing world. Red Bend is the only company that provides standards-based products and solutions for software management, device management and mobile virtualization that work on any mobile phone and connected device uniformly, efficiently and securely over the air. Red Bend enables its customers to stay competitive in a fast-moving market by helping them deliver high-value services on an increasing number of connected devices with growing software complexity. More than 80 leading device manufacturers, mobile operators, semiconductor vendors and automotive companies worldwide trust Red Bend with their most important assets-the mobile and connected devices their consumers depend on. www.redbend.com

LiveU's video uplink solutions have been deployed by the University of Southern California (USC) athletic department, it was announced today, to power the school's Tunnel Vision live programming from Memorial Coliseum, coverage from road games, and stream full-length, live games online.

Since the start of the 2013 football season, The Trojans have leveraged the LiveU solution to transmit pre-game and post-game live shows from the field branded as "Tunnel Vision." Coverage includes live feeds of players running onto the field for warm ups via the tunnel, Trojans Walk-by with fans down the 50 yard line seats, team prayer, cheerleader drills, Trojans mascot riding on to the field on horseback, and interviews with coaches and the Athletic Director by talent Katie Boggs in the 60 minute countdown to the game, and after the game. The show also mixes in b-roll taken earlier in the day such as players getting off the team bus, and more. USC also uses LiveU technology for other events throughout the week and the season including press conferences and banquets.

Memorial Coliseum has hosted world-class sporting events ranging from Super Bowls to Olympic games. USC fans now get a new perspective of this landmark venue. "With LiveU, we can offer new unique types of very appealing content for fans, and a lot more of it," said Rich Rodriguez, USCTrojans.com Executive Producer. "This is extremely important given the length restrictions on actual game highlights we can post on our website. LiveU technology allows our fans to become 'a fly on the wall' and get a unique point of view they couldn't see before. Each live hit generates thousands of views in real time; we then post clips on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, which in turn bring in even more views."

USC, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary of athletics in 2013, is one of the nation's most successful athletic programs. Currently fielding 21 men's and women's sports, the Trojans claim 120 national team championships, an unprecedented 419 Olympians and 52 NCAA Postgraduate Scholars.

USC will also use LiveU for game and competitions that were never before covered live. "We discovered LiveU after building our new sand volleyball stadium and needing a cost-effective uplink solution to stream our first tournament from the venue before it was hardwired, without renting expensive satellite trucks," Rodriguez continued. "LiveU came to the rescue and was easily able to transmit high quality video, even when the stadium was crowded, thanks to LiveU's unique antennas. In fact, we now prefer to use LiveU even when a hardwired connection is available in venues such as baseball, soccer, lacrosse and others thanks to its simplicity, portability and ease-of-use."

In addition, USC uses LiveU technology to streamline the posting of video highlights. "While our teams are on the road, we use LiveU to feed our ftp footage. We send post game pressers directly to PAC 12 for use on-air. Also, we send footage to our own production facility in real time, so that we can easily post all of our game highlights and related content immediately after each game. In the past, we had to wait several hours until we arrived back home to do so," added Rodriguez.

LiveU, the leader in portable live video-over-cellular solutions, offers a variety of portable devices that bond together multiple cellular connections for cost-effective HD-quality video uplink from anywhere, including its LU70 backpacks, Xtender external antennas for high-quality signal even in congested sports venues, LU-Smart smartphone bonding app, and a variety of complementary video services for sports organizations.

According to Tim Prukop, Head of Sports and New Media Sales at LiveU, "USC is a school with a long history of success and extremely avid fans. We are very happy that we can assist them in creating new and exciting content around their athletics programs."

About LiveULiveU is the pioneer of broadcast-quality, video-over-cellular solutions that allow live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions have been used for breaking news and high-profile events, including the 2012 US Presidential Campaign, London 2012 Olympics, Hurricane Sandy, 2011 British Royal Wedding, Japanese Tsunami, GRAMMY Awards® and Super Bowl. From backpacks to smartphones, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.

About USC Trojan AthleticsUSC has one of the nation's most successful athletic programs. Trojan teams have won 120 national championships (95 men's, including a national-best 82 NCAA titles, and 25 women's), more than all but 2 other schools. USC's men athletes have won more individual NCAA titles (309) than any other school (the Women of Troy have another 70 individual NCAA crowns). Troy has more Olympians, medalists and gold medalists than any school: since 1904, 419 Trojans have competed in the Games, winning 135 gold medals (with at least 1 gold in every summer Olympics from 1912), 87 silver and 64 bronze. Four Trojans have won the prestigious Sullivan Award as America's top amateur athlete: diver Sammy Lee (1953), shot putter Parry O'Brien (1959) and swimmers John Naber (1977) and Janet Evans (1989). Two Women of Troy have won the Honda-Broderick Cup as the top collegiate woman athlete of the year: Cheryl Miller (1983-84) and Angela Williams (2001-02). Trojan women have won 15 Honda Awards, as their sport's top female athlete. USC student-athletes have received 52 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships (in the Top 10 among all schools) and Troy has had 31 first team Academic All-Americans and 4 athletes who were Rhodes Scholars. USC fields 21 intercollegiate teams, 9 men's (football, basketball, baseball, track and field, swimming and diving, tennis, golf, water polo, volleyball) and 12 women's (basketball, track and field, swimming and diving, tennis, golf, water polo, volleyball, rowing, cross country, lacrosse, sand volleyball).

eXelate , the leading smart data and analytics engine powering smarter digital marketing decisions, today announced it ranked 86th on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. eXelate grew 2,129 percent during this period. eXelate's Chief Executive Officer, Mark S. Zagorski credits the strong growth to the company's innovative new products, including consumer insights terminal eXelate optiX™, along with proven momentum and customer success with its existing suite of smart data products like the eXelate eXchange™ and eXelate conneX™, its enterprise data management solution that has attracted partners like Nielsen."We've had a great year and, with this award recognition, it keeps getting better," said Mark S. Zagorski. "Recognized as a Top 20 company in the Internet sector of The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 inspires all of us here at eXelate to continue our promise to provide the industry with innovative data and analytics products to empower digital advertisers and drive more effective marketing.""The 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 companies are exemplary cases of those spurring growth in a tough market through innovation," said Eric Openshaw, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. "This year's list is a who's who of companies behind the most exciting and innovative products and services in the technology space. We congratulate the Fast 500 companies and look forward to what they do next.""The fastest growing companies in the US are drivers of constant innovation and operate with the agility to stay ahead of a quickly evolving marketplace, and software, biotech/pharma and internet companies continue to be at the forefront," added James Atwell, national managing partner of the Emerging Growth Company practice, Deloitte Services LP. "The companies excelling in these sectors have a startup mentality that allows them to be nimble and adapt quickly, which is why they consistently lead the list of fast-growing companies each year."About eXelateeXelate is the smart data company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions worldwide for marketers, agencies, platforms, publishers and data providers. eXelate's smart data platform provides accurate, actionable, and agile data and analytics on online household demographics, purchase intent, and behavioral propensities. Through the collection of trillions of directly measured online data points and distribution partnerships with information leaders such as Nielsen, Nielsen Catalina, MasterCard Advisors, Bizo, and more, eXelate makes online, offline, and custom modeled data sets actionable across 700M online consumers worldwide. As members of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising, and Evidon's Open Data Partnership, eXelate is a leader in privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit http://www.exelate.com or follow @eXelate.About Deloitte's 2013 Technology Fast 500™Technology Fast 500, conducted by Deloitte LLP, provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies -- both public and private -- in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2008 to 2012.In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company's operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or CD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of five years, and be headquartered within North America.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced its new Google Chrome™ Extension. The Clarizen Extension for Chrome enables users to seamlessly add tasks, cases and screenshots to their Clarizen account from any web page in a Chrome browser window. The free-of-charge extension enables teams in all departments to work more efficiently and achieve better results -- faster. Clarizen's enterprise work collaboration and project management solution is redefining collaboration for the enterprise by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Now with the Chrome Extension, users can quickly create a task or any case item type, upload screen shots of the currently viewed page, assign due dates and resources and connect them to existing projects, milestones or tasks directly from the web. Related documents can also easily be 'dragged and dropped' directly into the task/case, and all relevant team members are automatically updated of the changes via Clarizen's notification system. The Clarizen Chrome Extension is an essential timesaver across all team departments. For example, now marketing teams can report website bugs right from the web page with the click of a button. Simply select a task or a change request, take a screen shot, and assign resources directly from the page right into tasks or cases in Clarizen. Once the free extension is downloaded from the Chrome web store, the Clarizen icon is displayed adjacent to the URL field on the right-hand side. Users can also access the extension with a keyboard shortcut, enabling constant easy access to Clarizen from Chrome. The Chrome Extension is just one of Clarizen's integrations with Google products. Clarizen also integrates with Google Docs to enable users to link to existing Google docs, create new documents and easily manage and share with the entire team via Clarizen. To learn more about adding tasks and/or cases from any web page, watch the short Clarizen Google Chrome Extension tutorial video. About ClarizenClarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Personetics, a leading provider of predictive customer engagement solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that Bank Technology News selected it as a 2014 “Top 10 FinTech Company to Watch.”“Every year we speak to hundreds of people to uncover new and exciting technology that we think will make a major impact in the financial services industry,” said Penny Crosman, editor-in-chief of Bank Technology News and technology editor of American Banker. “A lot of bankers are talking about providing a seamless cross-channel customer experience and leveraging predictive analytics to help customers make better financial decisions in real-time. Personetics Smart Assistant is a promising technology that aims to change the way people interact with their banks by providing relevant real-time analytics within existing mobile and online banking channels.”

“It’s great to be recognized by Bank Technology News, who have their finger on the pulse of the financial technology industry, for developing new technology that solves real world banking challenges,” said David Sosna, CEO of Personetics. “We believe that by focusing on customer interests & needs institutions will see drastic improvements in trust and loyalty scores as well as more profitable long-term relationships, Our Solution focuses on making digital banking experiences as insightful and enjoyable for customers as shopping on Amazon®, or making a dinner reservation using Open Table®.”

To learn why Personetics is one to watch in 2014, go to Top 10 FinTech Companies to Watch

About Bank Technology News

Bank Technology News is written for 30,000 CIOs, CTOs and IT professionals who are responsible for identifying, recommending, purchasing and supporting the front-, middle- and back-office technology needs across all business units of their financial institutions.

Bank Technology News, the industry’s source of technology coverage, provides critical information and analysis on the relationship between banking strategy and technology execution at financial institutions. As banks and other financial organizations focus intently on facilitating business objectives, meeting compliance guidelines and achieving a return on investment for technology purchases, Bank Technology News focuses on the players, companies and innovations that enable institutions to play by new rules and establish benchmarks by which their performance and regulatory compliance will be enhanced.

About Personetics

Personetics believes focusing on customer interests will help financial institutions improve trust and loyalty. To do this, firms need to promote a highly personal and relevant customer experience across all banking channels. Personetics Smart Assistant delivers contextual insights and recommendations that help consumers with their day-to-day financial lives. . Personetics gives financial institutions the power to convert passive digital adopters into active digital users while improving their overall customer experience and reducing operational costs for the institution.

Personetics is backed by Carmel Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Capital and is headquartered in New York with offices in Tokyo and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit http://www.personetics.com/.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – November 5, 2013 – Garantia Data today announced it has raised $9 million in a series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures, bringing its total funding to date to $13 million.Garantia Data already has more than 1,000 paying customers for its Redis Cloud service. Customers benefit from infinite seamless scalability, true high-availability, stable top performance and fully automated operations. The service is currently available over public clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Windows Azure, as well as platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers such as Heroku and AppFog.“Redis rules in-memory NoSQL. It is among top three database choices by developers and has become a cornerstone of new applications,” said Salil Deshpande, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures, Palo Alto. “We invested in Garantia Data because the reliability and painless scalability of their commercial Redis offering makes Redis adoption feasible for enterprises.”“The comprehensive technology developed by Garantia Data opens the door for true in-memory NoSQL computing, and is a game-changer,” said Ronen Nir, general partner at Carmel Ventures. “I look forward to joining the board, and helping to advise the company on achieving its potential.”

Strong Growth in Redis MarketRedis is among the top three databases selected for new applications and is expected to capture 15 percent of the NoSQL market in the next few years. According to 451 Research, the NoSQL market is expected to cross $1 billion in revenue by 2016. With this investment, Garantia Data, the leading commercial Redis provider, is making a significant move in the database space to capitalize on the explosive growth of NoSQL and Redis.“Redis is one of the fastest growing databases in the NoSQL space and we are continuing to see tremendous potential in the market,” said Ofer Bengal, co-founder and CEO, Garantia Data. “Being a significant contributor to open source Redis and at the same time serving our more than one thousand customers commercially, we know exactly how to adapt Redis to enterprise needs. The current round of financing will enable us to further enhance Redis Cloud’s core capabilities in order to meet the unique use case that Redis offers for both developers and large IT organizations.”Garantia Data will be at AWS re:Invent, November 12-15, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada at booth 627 demonstrating its enterprise-class Redis Cloud service.

About Garantia Data’s FoundersThe company was founded by Ofer Bengal and Yiftach Shoolman, two serial entrepreneurs with proven track records and unique expertise in application acceleration and high performance networking.Ofer Bengal, Founder & CEOOfer is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and led several companies in the areas of data communications, telecommunications, Internet, homeland security and medical devices. Ofer was founder & CEO of RIT Technologies (NASDAQ: RITT), a provider of sophisticated telecommunications and data communications systems to major world carriers. He began his career as an aerospace engineer in the Israeli Air Force and then built his own aerospace engineering consulting firm. As a hobby, he has also invented, developed and licensed toy concepts to companies such as Milton Bradley, Hasbro and Tomy. Ofer holds a Bachelor of Science (Cum Laude) in aerospace engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.Yiftach Shoolman, Founder & CTOYiftach is an experienced technologist, having held leadership engineering and product roles in diverse fields from application acceleration, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), to broadband networks and metro networks. He was the founder, president and CTO of Crescendo Networks (acquired by F5, NASDAQ:FFIV), the vice president of software development at Native Networks (acquired by Alcatel, NASDAQ: ALU) and part of the founding team at ECI Telecom broadband division, where he served as vice president of software engineering. Yiftach holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science and has completed studies for M.Sc. in Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University.About Garantia DataGarantia Data offers enterprise-class Redis by its fully-managed Redis Cloud service. Providing infinite seamless scalability, true high availability, stable top performance and zero management, Redis Cloud enables developers and enterprise IT organizations to successfully enhance Redis operations in a variety of use cases. Redis Cloud is used every day by more than 1,000 paying customers. Privately held and backed by leading VCs, including Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures, Garantia Data’s team of software veterans combines more than 150 years of aggregate experience in database technologies, application acceleration and cloud computing with a proven track record in transforming innovative ideas into viable and valuable products. For more information visit: garantiadata.com / Twitter: @garantiadata- See more at: http://garantiadata.com/press-releases/garantia-data-secures-9m-in-series-a-funding#.UoI6dflBN8E

Outbrain ,the leading content discovery platform, announced that it has closed a new round of funding of $35 million, bringing its total financing to $99 million. HarbourVest led the round with participation from Outbrain’s existing investors Carmel Ventures, Index Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, GlenRock Israel, Rhodium, and Lightspeed Venture Partners and a new participant, Vintage Partners. The company will use the new funding to continue its innovations in content discovery and expand its global business, which currently spans 13 offices. Outbrain was the first to market with its content discovery platform in 2006 and has led the category ever since, not just in terms of customers and installations, but also in its commitment to quality content and to ensuring the integrity of every recommendation it serves. Outbrain’s links play a fundamental role in the content ecosystem that has emerged in recent years, and the company has been a vocal proponent of the need to maintain reader trust in order for this ecosystem to thrive, including following strict content guidelines and excluding questionable marketers from its network.

Outbrain is the only content recommendation platform formally listed and audited by comScore, which estimates that its recommendations reach 83% of all Americans online and over 390 consumers globally. The company serves more than 100 billion organic and paid content recommendations per month and its links appear on the websites of the most trusted, recognized names in the industry, like CNN, Slate, ESPN, The Telegraph, Le Monde and The Guardian.

“We’ve been watching Outbrain for some time now and have been incredibly impressed with what Yaron and the rest of the team has created,” said XX. “This is a company that is built – not on spammy links or get rich quick schemes – but on a business model that puts the reader above all else. This is a company that is built to last and to dominate a growing market. HarbourVest is proud to be a part of that.” “This investment comes at a pivotal moment in Outbrain’s evolution. We’ve matured from an upstart content recommendation company to a key player in the content ecosystem and a trusted partner for the world’s best brands and publishers,” said Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai. “The team at HarbourVest will be an ideal partner for us as we move into our next phase of growth.” *Source: comScore Media Metrix, August 2013 About Outbrain Outbrain ( www.outbrain.com ), the leading content discovery platform, is on a mission to help readers find the most interesting content online, while giving publishers and brands the ability to reach a highly engaged audience. Using personalized links, Outbrain recommends content across a network of more than 700 premium publishers, including CNN, Fox News, Hearst, Rolling Stone, US Weekly and Fast Company. Links to content on a publisher's own site increase stickiness, while links to high-quality third-party content increase site traffic and generate revenue. Outbrain is currently installed on more than 100,000 sites and generates more than 150 billion recommendations per month. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York, with 14 offices globally, including the U.S., U.K., Israel, Singapore and Australia.

CoolaData, a provider of Big Data Analytics as a Service, announced today the closing of $7.4 million in Series A funding from Greylock IL and Carmel Ventures. CoolaData improves overall customer lifecycle management by providing fully actionable, unified behavioral analytics solutions for online companies. The company’s groundbreaking technology offers the ease and fast onboarding of an out-of-the box solution, combined with the scale, analytic power, flexibility and openness traditionally achieved by self-development.

CoolaData’s founders, Tomer Ben Moshe and Guy Greenberg, are BI/Big Data veterans and serial entrepreneurs. “CoolaData offers the ability to answer complex business questions which cannot be addressed by traditional BI tools,” said the company’s CEO, Tomer Ben Moshe. “Our unique, open interface allows customers to easily turn insights into actions by enabling them to embed CoolaData analytics into their own systems.”

The CoolaData service is in beta with several eCommerce, gaming and mobile customers. These customers benefit from a unique combination of scalability, extensibility and sophisticated analytical power, without the burden of having to invest the resources and know-how required to build a Big Data solution. The service will be generally available in the first quarter of 2014.

Yoram Snir, Partner at Greylock IL and Avi Zeevi, General Partner and Co-Founder of Carmel Ventures, joined the company’s board of directors.

“We have seen the need for scalable, deep and open analytics capabilities provided as a service across our portfolio,” said Yoram Snir of Greylock IL. “CoolaData offers a cost effective service that can replace expensive and lengthy development of Big Data capabilities for most, if not all the companies we came across”.

Avi Zeevi of Carmel Ventures added: “We've watched Tomer, Guy and their team at CoolaData transform the company from an innovative startup to one that delivers an advanced unified behavioral service for mobile and web analytics. It’s not about pageviews anymore -- what business users value now is actionable analysis of customer behaviors.”

Greylock IL is an affiliate fund of Greylock Partners with offices in Israel and London. Some of the fund’s investments include: Actifio, Aeroscout, ScaleIO, iZettle, JustEat, Payoneer, Wanova and Wonga. For more information visit: www.greylockil.com (link).

About Carmel Ventures

Carmel is a member of the Viola Group, Israel’s premier technology-focused PE group with over $2B under management. As Israel’s top tier VC firm, Carmel invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early stage companies and builds global category leaders across a number of key market segments, including: software, new enterprise infrastructure, Big Data, digital media, consumer applications and semiconductors. For more information, please visit: www.carmelventures.com (link).

Samanage, an emerging leader in cloud-based IT service desk and asset management software, has secured $5 million in funding from shareholders Carmel Ventures and Gemini Israeli Ventures. This comes as Samanage closes this quarter with 30% business growth - the sixth consecutive quarter in which it has achieved such enormous expansion. The company will use the new funding to accelerate investments in product development and customer acquisition.

Samanage has been singled out for continued funding for its proven ability to challenge companies like ServiceNow and BMC in the mid-market. The company’s focus on delivering a great user experience, quick deployment, and consistently high ROI and low TCO, has led to a vast customer base that spans 45 countries.

“We’ve seen incredible growth in the past few quarters and this has really been pushing us to expand,” says Doron Gordon, Samanage CEO. “Our customers deserve an easy-to-use enterprise software application that they actually love to use and that’s what we plan to continue rolling out in an aggressive manner to organizations looking to enhance their service, while reducing workload.”

“Samanage has been growing quickly and addresses a real need in the market. We clearly want to keep fostering this,” says Ronen Nir, Partner at Carmel Ventures. “We’re delighted to continue supporting the experienced founding team of Samanage and help them build a great company.”

“We see standout potential in Samanage,” says Yossi Sela, Managing Partner, Gemini Israeli Ventures. “The experienced Samanage team has created a unique product with awesome user experience that is already making waves in the conservative world of IT management software. Samanage is ready to capture an even larger share of this huge market, and these funds will be directed to boost its rapid growth. ”

Samanage has recently announced that it has been nominated for two awards in North Carolina: the company is a finalist in the NCTA 2013 Awards, in the category of Fastest Growing Small Company; Samanage was also recognized by the Triangle Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work in 2013. In addition, THINKStrategies awarded Samanage a Best of SaaS Showplace honor for the measurable business value delivered to its customers.

About Samanage:Samanage is a leading provider of real cloud-based IT service desk and asset management software that helps companies deliver a superior service experience. Samanage firmly believes that enterprise software deserves cutting-edge UI, and is devoted to providing its customers with the most modern and intuitive IT management platform. The company is challenging companies like ServiceNow and BMC in the mid-market, and was recognized in 2013 for its SaaS and business achievements through a number of awards. Since 2007, Samanage has been committed to assisting IT departments in delivering fast, quality service while reducing their workloads. Capabilities include IT service desk, problem and change management, hardware and software tracking, a contract repository, inventory risk detection, and more. Visit: http://www.samanage.com.

ironSource has announced its mobileCore cross-promotion tools for app developers is now available. The centerpiece of the mobileCore platform is its Offer Wall, which provides non intrusive in-app promotional opportunities. The Offer Wall is one of several ad formats that mobileCore offers for monetization opportunities including interstitial ads and slider ads. mobileCore SDKs are Google-compliant and offer a range of modular developer tools to encourage engagement, distribution and monetization without disrupting the user experience or usage.Participating developers can use the mobileCore platform to evaluate future decision-making regarding cross promotion and app development. Developers have the options to share traffic but are not obligated to do so.

– SundaySky , the creator of SmartVideo, today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series C investment round led by Comcast Ventures . Liberty Global Ventures , Vintage Investment Partners , and existing investors, Carmel Ventures , Globespan Capital Partners and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), also participated in the round. With this investment, SundaySky will accelerate growth and scale by expanding go-to-market capacity in existing and new geographies, and strengthening new product innovation to further its competitive advantage. Andrew Cleland, managing director of Comcast Ventures, will join SundaySky’s board of directors, where he will lend his experience and expertise in consumer Internet solutions, including digital media and advertising technology. This new funding comes at a key moment in the company’s growth; SundaySky doubled its staff in the last 12 months, tripled revenues in 2012, and expects that growth to continue in 2013. In the last 12 months, SmartVideo views have grown more than 200 percent to 140 million, spanning ecommerce, telecommunications, insurance, banking and travel industries – with more than half of those views attributed to SmartVideo Advertising programs.

“This milestone highlights SundaySky’s success in establishing and leading the smart video category and a new paradigm for how businesses engage with their customers,” said Shmulik Weller, CEO of SundaySky. “All of our investors share a commitment to our mission to capture the vast market opportunity for personalized video and innovate ahead of the competition.”

Leading customer-centric brands are adopting data-driven acquisition and engagement strategies by adding SmartVideo to their marketing portfolios to deliver more engaging and effective experiences to their customers. SundaySky SmartVideo is the only truly personalized, real-time and infinitely-scalable platform with sophisticated built-in analytics, allowing brands to measure and optimize performance at multiple touch-points.

“Comcast Ventures is a believer in disruptive digital marketing innovation, particularly as CMOs boost technology investments and seek to develop more direct, personalized relationships with customers,” said Andrew Cleland, managing director of Comcast Ventures. “SundaySky sits at the intersection of these trends, combining rich creative experiences with big data, and we’ll support a world-class team building a clear category leader.”

About SundaySky SundaySky, the creator of SmartVideo, helps customer-centric brands engage people with personalized, real-time video experiences at every step of the customer lifecycle. The SundaySky platform generates hundreds of thousands of SmartVideos daily, powering customer acquisition, support, growth and loyalty initiatives for leaders in ecommerce, telecommunications, insurance, banking and travel. AT&T, Office Depot, Allstate and other SundaySky customers have proven that SmartVideo viewers are more engaged, profitable and loyal, as program performance is measurable and optimized for incremental impact on key business metrics. SundaySky is headquartered in New York City with offices in Tel Aviv and London. For more information, visit www.sundaysky.com.

RealMatch announced today that it has recently signed over 20 new affiliate partnership deals with leading digital publishers, job board operators, and broadcast media companies that will implement RealMatch's white-label recruitment advertising solution to generate new revenue, increase site traffic, and improve overall engagement among their subscriber base. The list includes well known digital publishers and media companies such as Ars Technica, Merion Matters, WRAL.com, HMP Communications, Norfolk Daily News and HR.com. RealMatch has also extended its footprint into Canada, with Jobs.ca and BCjobs.ca. "RealMatch invests in acquiring a strong audience for our local job listings by distributing them across its large network of employment sites," said WRAL.com General Manager John Conway. "With this partnership, we can help employers in North Carolina find the best possible candidates, making our product offering more attractive to the business community." As part of the RealMatch's partnership agreement, RealMatch affiliates become members of TheJobNetwork™, RealMatch's recruitment advertising network comprised of more than one thousand local, diversity and niche job sites, job aggregators, job search engines, and social networks. TheJobNetwork™ is powered by RealMatch's sophisticated ad optimization, ad targeting, and job matching technologies to increase ad performance and generate significantly higher qualified applicant response rates compared to traditional destination job sites. "Our business model has been built to deliver measurable performance, exceptional efficiency and a network reach never before seen by other traditional recruitment ad networks. With our true Real-Time Job Matching™ technology, our partners receive the best job performance in the industry – improving their site engagement, helping them grow audiences, and creating new and sustainable revenue," said Gal Almog, founder and CEO of RealMatch. About RealMatch RealMatch is revolutionizing the highly fragmented online recruitment industry by allowing online publishers to better monetize their communities using recruitment advertising, while offering employers and job seekers a much more efficient way to connect. Applying many of the same principles that made display and search advertising thrive, RealMatch has developed TheJobNetwork™, the largest recruitment ad network in North America comprised of more than 1,000 job sites powered by RealMatch on behalf of its publisher affiliates, along with thousands of third-party job sites. To learn more please visit www.realmatch.com. - See more at: http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/10/08/579010/10051766/en/RealMatch-Continues-Rapid-Growth-in-Recruitment-Advertising.html#sthash.kUw8yYlv.dpuf

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration and project management software, today announced the release of Clarizen v6, the first solution to combine true social engagement with powerful project management. The newest version of its award-winning cloud-based platform, Clarizen v6 redefines collaboration for the enterprise by putting social to work to help organizations achieve operational excellence."Clarizen v6 was designed from the ground up to support the requirements of today's changing modern workplace," said Clarizen founder and CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski. "Increasingly, companies and organizations are staffed by people of different generations, with varied skill sets and who are located around the world. Clarizen v6 delivers on our Work Funnel™ concept of connecting social context, tasks and projects on a single cloud-based platform, so collaboration will drive results."Clarizen v6: Raising the Bar for Work Collaboration and Project ManagementClarizen v6 is shaping the future of work by providing a robust, yet simple-to-use solution that connects unstructured conversations with structured work. With an all-new user interface combined with hundreds of new and enhanced features, Clarizen v6 empowers high-performance teams by improving visibility into projects and enabling social collaboration that drives business results.•Internal and External Social Collaboration: With Clarizen's unique social user interface, internal team members, customers and contractors can now link their conversations to every project element (task, milestone, deadline, etc.) to take action directly from real-time discussions. Users can also create discussion groups on the fly and communicate through common social techniques -- for example, using a hashtag (#) to link objects to the discussion, or tag individuals or groups with the at (@) sign to engage them in the conversation. By starting workflows from posts and discussions, Clarizen v6 streamlines work execution while encouraging transparency and participation across project team members.•Drag & Drop Resource Allocation: Clarizen v6 enables managers to assign -- and reassign -- resource workload with an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop function. Managers can see the projects each team member is working on at a glance, and shift work around based on their skillsets and availability.•Extensive Configurability: Clarizen's innovative new user interface (UI) makes it even easier to personalize views, reports and dashboards -- both at the individual and organizational level.•Object Preview: From a single screen, team members get all the context they need around literally any entity in the system -- projects, tasks, documents, conversations and more. With a click of a mouse, they can drill down for even more detail.•High-performance Search Engine: Type-ahead search allows instant search throughout the system, making it extraordinarily easy to find information quickly.•Easy Document Collaboration: Organizations can manage all documents in a central location by project, work item or task. Team members and customers can manage and annotate documents -- all within a single tool. Clarizen also integrates with tools like Box and Google Drive, to support an organization's document management strategies."Collaboration software has evolved beyond simple sharing, and is now a powerful tool teams can use to get work done," said Alan Lepofsky, VP and principal analyst, Constellation Research in his report Enterprise Collaboration Software: From Simple Sharing to Purposeful Collaboration. "A new generation of collaborative platforms is starting to emerge, where social features are built directly into the business tools employees are already familiar with... When implemented correctly, these new tools enable people to create, find and share information, connect with colleagues, customers and business partners and participate in communities more effectively than ever before...This type of collaborative work, where social is part of a core business process, is what I call 'purposeful collaboration'... Bottom line: purposeful collaboration will drive the greatest business value.""Clarizen v6 was designed around the tenets of participation, alignment and awareness," said Nowogrodski. "We wanted to empower individuals in a way that has never been done before. By connecting social context with processes, we give a voice to each team member. It is that voice and that transparency that will ultimately lead an organization to success."What Customers Are Saying:"With v6, Clarizen has made significant advancements in simplifying work processes for organizations," said Steve Giltner, operations manager at Paramount Solar. "The way the social functionality has been integrated into the platform is a major step forward; plus the ability to personalize the UI is a major add. We really believe v6 is the version to take our company to the next level.""I have always been a big-time advocate of having a simple interface for tracking tasks and with v6, Clarizen has exceeded my expectations," said Jim Hickey, senior manager of client delivery and operations at Marketo. "I'm truly looking forward to spending my days in Clarizen and having it be the central place for me to accomplish my work. Eventually, I can see our entire organization leveraging Clarizen."AvailabilityClarizen v6 is available now. In addition, customers can also experience v6 and choose their upgrade path through the Clarizen "Training Box," which allows them to configure their system and train their employees prior to completing a full production upgrade. For more information about Clarizen v6, please visit: www.clarizen.com.About the Clarizen Work Funnel™The Work Funnel is Clarizen's concept of connecting the social graph of conversations and interactions that we all have today to the structured processes of work, tasks and projects. In channeling a flow between unstructured conversations, tasks and projects, organizations across the globe will able to collaborate in a meaningful way and get more work done, faster.ABOUT CLARIZENClarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.Embedded Video AvailableImage Available: http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=2389209Embedded Video Available: http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=2388983MEDIA CONTACTAlissa VasilevskisBOCA CommunicationsEmail Contact(415) 738-7718 ext. 23

Perfecto Mobile, provider of the MobileCloud™ Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced that MobileCloud Performance is enhanced to include cloud-based load testing. In collaboration with BlazeMeter’s Apache JMeter™ compatible cloud service, MobileCloud Performance enables teams to easily scale load testing to hundreds of thousands of virtual users from anywhere around the globe, and at the same time measure end user experience using real devices. This new, affordable and easy-to-use offering enables teams of all sizes to begin testing on-demand within minutes, without internal infrastructure.Cloud-based performance testing lowers adoption barriers and streamlines the testing workflow by eliminating required IT coordination for each test cycle, thus simplifying the process and increasing test efficiency. As an on-demand performance testing solution, MobileCloud Performance enables development, QA & performance teams to begin testing projects earlier and more frequently across mobile applications. Optimizing performance using real devices increases confidence when deploying into production. These advanced capabilities support more comprehensive testing, and in turn, more predictable and optimized application performance.“In today’s rapidly changing mobile environment, development teams are being asked to deliver better software, faster. Having a more efficient workflow is a key enabler in adopting continuous testing,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile. “A cloud-based approach offers a faster, more cost effective method to execute performance testing. This new enhancement to MobileCloud Performance complements our range of local, internal, public and private device clouds and expands our integrated testing suite. Testing the performance of applications without extra hardware and software investments allows development teams to get started easily and deliver results immediately. This enhancement, in addition to upcoming releases, allows Perfecto Mobile to serve a wider base for functional and performance testing across all mobile application types and development stages.”This enhanced offering provides Perfecto Mobile customers a cloud-based Apache JMeter compatible load testing solution, the leading open-source load testing application. Open source development and testing tools are helping teams experiment and determine preferred development approaches, and support existing tools, practices and know how. MobileCloud Performance continues to support customers’ existing load tools and now offers customers:Simple self-service platform that allows users to design load tests and scale to production-volume (100,000s) in minutes. Affordable cloud-based solution, avoids the hardware, network and software investments required to build out an internal lab. Predictable end user experience by testing varying load and network conditions on real devices. To learn more about MobileCloud Performance with JMeter, please visit: http://www.perfectomobile.com/Products/MobileCloud_Performance.About BlazeMeter BlazeMeter (www.blazemeter.com) is a self-service, web and mobile load testing platform (PaaS) providing developers an enterprise grade, out-of-the-box load testing solution that is 100% compatible with Apache JMeter™. For more, subscribe to the JMeter Cloud Blog and follow the company on Twitter @BlazeMeter.About Perfecto Mobile Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, enabling them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile’s cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.More than 700 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.For more information on how Perfecto Mobile can help you confidently test, deploy and monitor your mobile applications, visit www.perfectomobile.com and follow us on Twitter: @PerfectoMobile.Read more: http://www.hostreview.com/news/131004-perfecto-mobile-introduces-open-source-based-load-testing-for-mobile-applications-in-the-cloud#ixzz2h0wO77m6

Perfecto Mobile, provider of The MobileCloud Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced continued global expansion with new points of presence for its MobileCloud™ platform in Brazil, Switzerland, France and Mexico. The broad reach of the MobileCloud enables global enterprises to remotely access a multitude of services to develop, test, monitor and support their mobile apps. This platform works on real smartphones and tablets connected to local carrier networks around the world in order to measure application quality within real market conditions.“Large organizations need to be able to validate the customer user experience in their target market, domestically and internationally. Without the ability to capture and disseminate pre-existing resources, best practices and proven processes throughout their organization, these companies will face serious limitations when looking to expand into new markets. This is where the MobileCloud platform comes into play,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile. “We continue to target regions with progressive mobile markets and are in high demand for our customers. We will continue on this growth path with new points of presence opening in APAC in the coming months.”The mobile end user experience is greatly affected by local market factors such as mobile network conditions, specific implementations, roaming and regulations. Enterprises distributed development, testing, operations and support teams must be able to work on local market devices from anywhere in the world to ensure consistent quality of their mobile services in targeted geographic markets. This is particularly important for countries in the LATAM region as countries like Brazil will soon become the world’s stage for a number of events such as the World Cup and Olympic Games. Perfecto Mobile will capitalize on previous and current work in that region to assist global companies looking to reach this audience in preparation for the events.The MobileCloud’s new points of presence are equipped with local devices and the capability to cover all local carriers. Access to Perfecto Mobile’s secure private cloud provides enterprises with required security and localization capabilities that global enterprises need to expand their mobile footprint. Additional datacenter locations include the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Israel, India, Canada, and South Africa.About Perfecto Mobile Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, empowering them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile’s cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.More than 700 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.For more information on how Perfecto Mobile can help you confidently test, deploy and monitor your mobile applications, visitwww.perfectomobile.com and follow us on Twitter: @PerfectoMobile.

Perfecto Mobile, provider of The MobileCloud Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced continued global expansion with new points of presence for its MobileCloud™ platform in Brazil, Switzerland, France and Mexico. The broad reach of the MobileCloud enables global enterprises to remotely access a multitude of services to develop, test, monitor and support their mobile apps. This platform works on real smartphones and tablets connected to local carrier networks around the world in order to measure application quality within real market conditions.“Large organizations need to be able to validate the customer user experience in their target market, domestically and internationally. Without the ability to capture and disseminate pre-existing resources, best practices and proven processes throughout their organization, these companies will face serious limitations when looking to expand into new markets. This is where the MobileCloud platform comes into play,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile. “We continue to target regions with progressive mobile markets and are in high demand for our customers. We will continue on this growth path with new points of presence opening in APAC in the coming months.”The mobile end user experience is greatly affected by local market factors such as mobile network conditions, specific implementations, roaming and regulations. Enterprises distributed development, testing, operations and support teams must be able to work on local market devices from anywhere in the world to ensure consistent quality of their mobile services in targeted geographic markets. This is particularly important for countries in the LATAM region as countries like Brazil will soon become the world’s stage for a number of events such as the World Cup and Olympic Games. Perfecto Mobile will capitalize on previous and current work in that region to assist global companies looking to reach this audience in preparation for the events.The MobileCloud’s new points of presence are equipped with local devices and the capability to cover all local carriers. Access to Perfecto Mobile’s secure private cloud provides enterprises with required security and localization capabilities that global enterprises need to expand their mobile footprint. Additional datacenter locations include the US, UK, Spain, Germany, Israel, India, Canada, and South Africa.About Perfecto Mobile Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, empowering them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile’s cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.More than 700 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.For more information on how Perfecto Mobile can help you confidently test, deploy and monitor your mobile applications, visitwww.perfectomobile.com and follow us on Twitter: @PerfectoMobile.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration and project management software, today announced that Ted Purcell has joined the company as senior vice president of worldwide sales. Purcell will lead Clarizen's worldwide sales operations, as the company continues to rapidly expand its global customer base. Purcell will play a critical role in scaling the global sales business with a special focus on new customer growth and making customers successful."This is a very exciting time in Clarizen's history with the release of v6, to help bring our vision of the future of work to life," said Clarizen founder and CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski. "I am delighted to welcome Ted to the Clarizen team to help deliver on this vision. I am confident that with his focused leadership, and his strong strategic and innovative thinking, Clarizen will continue to outperform our sales goals -- in both new bookings and expansions."Purcell joins Clarizen directly following the launch of Clarizen v6 -- the largest product announcement in the company's history. He will apply his rigorous operational focus and his deep understanding of cloud, enterprise, B2B and consumer business to amplify v6's go-to-market strategy and to scale Clarizen's global organization."I was very attracted to Clarizen's approach of changing the way that companies work," said Purcell. "I'm extremely excited to join the team, build on the great customer momentum and culture already in place, and to share in the vision of leading the future of work."Purcell joins Clarizen from SAP, where he held a variety of sales and senior sales leadership roles at a key time during the company's transition in the US and EMEA. He was a key executive in driving customer success and explosive growth in emerging areas and markets of their business, across the modern pillars of their strategy in Big Data, Mobility, and Cloud. Earlier in his career, Purcell held sales and business development leadership roles at leading technology companies, Covalent Technologies (ultimately acquired by VMWare), Shutterfly, and Pure Software (acquired by Rational Software and IBM). Purcell holds a B.S. degree in international studies from the University of Arizona.About Clarizen Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy to use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners

Kaltura Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), the leading open source video platform, and LiveU (http://www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable live video-over-cellular solutions, today announced a strategic partnership, which allows LiveU live HD video feeds to be imported and transmitted directly to Kaltura's video player and range of video applications.With the integration, customers can seamlessly enjoy an end-to-end live to VOD video solution from ingest to streaming. This includes uploading, transcoding and processing, video management, video publishing, multi-rate video playing, video syndication, monetization, distribution, including OTT (over-the-top), and video editing tools."We are seeing a great need for a streamlined flow between live to VOD and on any device; the combination of LiveU and Kaltura provides the optimal solution for the online media industry, enabling us to offer live channels for publishers, sports clubs and other players in this market," said Samuel Wasserman, LiveU's CEO."We are excited to partner with LiveU, and to integrate with their innovative technology," said Kaltura's Chairman and CEO, Ron Yekutiel. "Many live events like college sports and news broadcasts need a streamlined Live-to-VOD solution, and that's where the integration between LiveU and Kaltura provides great value."LiveU developed and patented the technology for cellular bonding for remote news gathering in the US and other countries. LiveU's product portfolio ranges from backpacks and camera-mounted units to external antennas, hybrid vehicle solutions, computer bonding software, and smartphone apps.Kaltura provides a full online video platform with easy-to-use video tools and applications to cover the entire life-cycle of video publishing and streaming. Kaltura's flexible platform integrates with hundreds of additional video-related services, technologies and plugins to provide a broad solution set covering the widest range of use cases.Both Kaltura and LiveU are presenting their range of video solutions at IBC2013, RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 13-17. LiveU at Stands 3.A63 + 3.A68, and Kaltura at Hall 3 B20c.About LiveULiveU is the pioneer of broadcast-quality, video-over-cellular solutions that allow live video transmission (HD and SD) from any location around the world. With top-tier customers in 60+ countries, LiveU's solutions have been used for breaking news and high-profile events, including the 2012 US Presidential Campaign, London 2012 Olympics, Hurricane Sandy, 2011 British Royal Wedding, Japanese Tsunami, GRAMMY Awards® and Super Bowl. From backpacks to smartphones, LiveU offers a complete range of devices for live video coverage. LiveU's solutions include multiple 4G LTE/3G, HSPA+, WiMAX and Wi-Fi cellular links, which are optimized for maximum video quality based on the available network conditions.About KalturaKaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, transforming the way people work, learn, and entertain using online video. The Kaltura platform engages hundreds of millions of viewers by providing media companies advanced video management, publishing, and monetization tools that increase their reach and monetization and simplify their video operations. Kaltura improves productivity and interaction among millions of employees by providing enterprises powerful online video tools for boosting internal knowledge sharing, training, and collaboration, and for more effective marketing. Kaltura offers next generation learning for millions of students and teachers by providing educational institutions disruptive online video solutions for improved teaching, learning, and increased engagement across campuses and beyond. Kaltura was recently recognized in Forbes as 'one of the six fastest growing tech companies', in VentureBeat as a 'Next Billion Dollar Enterprise Tech Company', in Business-Insider as 'one of top 5 startups revolutionizing education' and 'one of 5 greatest open-source technologies for 2012', in Mashable as 'one of top 5 social enterprise technologies for business' and in Fast Company as 'one of the 10 most innovative companies in Israel'. For more information: http://www.kaltura.com, to join Kaltura's community visit: http://www.kaltura.org and http://www.html5video.org.Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/LiveU/Kaltura/prweb11106906Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1459784#ixzz2eYz2tv5X

Outbrain has appointed its first chief financial officer as signs point to an initial public offering [IPO] early next year that could be worth as much as $1 billion [£635 million].The content discovery service has signed up Jeff Davison as CFO who brings a quarter of a century of public and private company financial experience to Outbrain and adds fuel to the fire that an IPO is imminent."Jeff is joining the company at a pivotal moment in our growth, and his deep experience at both public and private companies make him an ideal choice to further cement our reputation as a leader in the content marketing space," said Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai.Davison will be responsible for Outbrain's day-to-day financial business as well as its accelerated global growth program that will see him reporting to Galai. The new CFO arrives off the back of 12 years at RightNow Technologies where he oversaw its IPO as well as a $1.8 billion [£1.14 billion] takeover by Oracle earlier this year."Outbrain has been a true pioneer in the content marketing space, and they are helping to set the tone for a rapidly growing industry. I'm looking forward to helping this company realize its full potential and make a name for itself as one of the great tech success stories," Davison added.The IPO should be launched at some point in 2014 and the latest reports state that Outbrain will seek $200 million [£127 million] to $300 million [£190 million] from Wall Street as part of it. Haaretz, an Israeli news site, estimates they will go for a valuation of $1 billion [£635 million] with other news sources in the same country going for a slightly more cautious figure of between $700 million [£444 million] and $800 million [£508 million].Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2013/09/10/outbrain-appoints-first-cfo-amidst-ipo-speculation/#ixzz2eYtSXIuj

Nielsen Online Audience Segments - TV Viewing has begun using eXelate conneX, a cloud infrastructure service, to segment, map, and create customer audiences it can push to multiple media partners.These partners -- including video demand-side platforms (DSPs), online publishers and ad networks -- use the data for ad targeting, analytics and more. Nielsen, one of the first to test the platform, has been using it for about four months. The company's television group last year launched the program -- Online Audience Segments - TV Viewing -- designed to enable brands to target online consumers based on their television and Web-viewing habits.eXelate conneX provides connections to more than 100 media platforms that allow companies to share data with partners. It eliminates the need for data owners to build, maintain and staff their own data pipes through one universal connection point and an open platform.Aside from Nielsen, the platform allows any company supporting its own data to rely on this platform to support the pipeline. Web publishers with data can distribute it to any media partner, and companies also can create their own private data exchange, explains Damian Garbaccio, eXelate CRO."We knew the industry needed the product, but making it commercial was a huge challenge," Garbaccio said. "Companies wanted the technology to distribute the data to anyone they want at scale, maybe for ad targeting or analytics, but they didn't know how to do that."Garbaccio said eXelate also works with companies that own the rights to search and social data they want to share. The platform can take any data, create a raw feed or file, and organize and distribute it. He said the company will continue to build out Web-based services to support data at companies like Nielsen that might want to use the technology across all business units.Read more: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/207917/nielsen-taps-exelates-data-pipeline.html#ixzz2dLGZQvA2

Moviri, a leading provider in IT Performance & Optimization solutions and consulting services, today announced its partnership with Perfecto Mobile, a leading provider of software solutions for the testing and monitoring services of mobile platforms, to provide its MobileCloud platform to enterprises in the EMEA Region.Perfecto Mobile's MobileCloud Platform is an end-to-end mobile testing and monitoring solution that features public and secure private clouds, advanced automation capabilities, seamless support for real devices and emulators as a native extension to the HP ALM suite. This solution enables testers and developers to easily access hundreds of real smartphones and tablets connected to live networks across the globe.Mobile represents a fast and fluid environment and enterprises need guidance to find the best way to integrate this opportunity into its current corporate initiatives. As a result, Moviri will combine Perfecto Mobile's platform with its sound expertise of testing, monitoring and security projects to help clients navigate this complex mobile landscape."Enterprises will be able to reduce time-to-market, achieve a better user experience and increase ROI with a sound mobile approach with Perfecto Mobile," said Paolo Bozzola, CEO of Moviri. "The MobileCloud platform will ensure enterprises are launching applications and mobile sites with the highest quality to continue usage and engagement with its customers.""We are pleased to bring our MobileCloud Platform together with Moviri's consulting services to enterprises in Italy and Europe," said Eran Yaniv, Founder & CEO of Perfecto Mobile. "This is the start of a long-standing and partnership in a very important region for us. Our mission is to enable enterprises across Europe to embrace Mobile by proving its customers with a flawless user experience."About Perfecto MobilePerfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, enabling them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile's cloud-based MobileCloud™ Platform and end-to-end mobile quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud™ is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.More than 700 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.ContactsKristine EnglertMarketing Communications1-339-927-7435About MoviriMoviri is a leading provider in IT Performance & Optimization solutions and consulting services. Moviri Services practice areas span Capacity Management, Platforms Management, Testing, Analytics and Security. As the IT optimization experts, Moviri consultants make applications and services run faster, use less resources and meet business demands.For more than a decade, Moviri has delivered hundreds of successful projects, supporting critical enterprise initiatives in virtualization, cloud computing, capacity optimization and service management, and it has developed software products that address critical customer needs in capacity planning.Moviri is headquartered in Milan, Italy with offices in Europe and the United States.ContactsRoberto Folrani+39.02.49517001

ironSource announced that it has established offices in San Francisco to better serve its growing North American customer base. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, ironSource serves advertisers and application developers around the world.ironSource Head of Global Services Orna Perry-Michelini commented, "By building a team in the United States, we can serve our growing number of North American partners even more efficiently."ironSource is a world-leading application distribution company, offering a number of products and services to application publishers and advertisers:At the core of the ironSource is InstallCore, an application distribution platform managing over 150M installs per month - over 1.7 billion to date - to engaged users.The Tweaks affiliate program for software distribution offers a large selection of high quality, appealing software products for mass audiences.The AfterDownload software display network offers automated traffic acquisition via advertising networks, display advertising as well as exclusive advertising channels.mobileCore offers innovative tools for app distribution across platforms and devices, enabling developers to engage users everywhere while optimizing revenue generation.C.A.S.T. Platform, the world's first native ad platform, is a proven solution for large premium sites and networks interested in generating new revenue through additional native units. This creative, unique inventory also appeals to advertisers looking to more efficiently engage users and drive results.ironSource will feature these business-to-business services at Affiliate Summit East in Philadelphia, August 18-20, 2013, booth 604.ironSource also develops and distributes a number of popular and useful consumer applications.About ironSource:ironSource Israel (2011) Ltd. is the leader in online software distribution, offering a complete ecosystem for downloadable applications including all aspects of user acquisition, conversion, monetization, integrated analytics and optimization. Popular ironSource brands include installCore, FoxTab, DealPly, AnySend and ClickMeIn. ironSource leadership is made up of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who shaped its portfolio of companies, together with experienced and effective executives. Founded in 2009 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, ironSource is a privately held company backed by Carmel Ventures, an affiliate of the Viola Group. For more information please visit us at http://www.ironsrc.com.

myThings, a global leader in data-driven advertising solutions, announced today that it has opened a new office in New York City. Located in Chelsea, Manhattan, this second US-based office will advance the company's strategic plans for delivering cross-funnel, data-driven ad solutions to tier 1 brands and agencies.With an established presence in Scottsdale, Arizona, myThings' New York expansion will address the increase in demand in the US and the Americas for its customized data-driven offering. In the first two quarters of 2013 more than 80 new top tier advertisers chose myThings as their data-driven advertising provider. During this period the company experienced an 800% growth in revenues in the North American market and anticipates a six-fold rise in demand in the upcoming 12 months."Our recently opened New York office represents an important milestone in myThings' long term strategy to empower the largest online enterprises to regain control over their data-driven communications," said Benny Arbel, CEO of myThings. "We are confident that this move will enable more brands to take their digital advertising to a new level and drive incremental sales."To coincide with the opening of its New York Office, myThings is also pleased to announce that it has appointed Jake Engwerda as new VP Sales Americas, APAC and Global Accounts. Jake will be responsible for executing the sales department's go-to-market and operational strategies in these markets. Formerly Regional Vice President, West at MediaMind, Jake brings over 11 years of global experience in management, sales and communication strategy, including enterprise sales and sales leadership roles in the online advertising industry."This is an exciting time to be joining the company," said Jake Engwerda. "I look forward to playing a key role in bringing customization to the data-driven advertising space both in the US and emerging markets."For more information on myThings' complete data driven advertising solutions, visit http://www.mythings.comAbout myThingsFounded in 2005, myThings is a global leader in data-driven advertising solutions. We specialize in customizing digital campaigns for leading advertisers in 30 markets including Adidas, Walmart, Toys"R"Us, Disney, Roots, Very, Zalando, Orange, Best Buy and Microsoft.myThings' tailored offering was developed to meet specific advertiser business goals through bespoke brand-aligned creatives, customized algorithms trained on their data, and differentiated campaigns per audience segment with unique creative and commercial attributes.Turning big data into incremental demand, myThings personalizes over 5 billion impressions per month through its proprietary bidder's integration with 14 ad exchanges (including a direct seat on the Facebook Exchange), in addition to many direct media partnerships with top publishers and networks across operating regions.

BBC News has expanded its use of LiveU's portable video-over-cellular technology, deploying both backpack and belt-clip mobile uplink solutions around the world.The BBC has broadened its use of the technology to enhance its global newsgathering capabilities. In the US, LiveU's LU70 backpack and LU40-S belt-clip units have been used to bring coverage of events the scale of Hurricane Sandy, the presidential elections, the Boston bombing and the aftermath of the Oklahoma tornado to viewers with footage supplied to BBC News, BBC World and BBC World America.The expansion builds on a long relationship: BBC News has been using LiveU technology for upwards of four years, including at last year's London Olympics, with units now deployed in India, China, Russia and the US as well as across the UK. The broadcaster is using the units over a wide variety of networks including 4G/LTE."We are very pleased to see the way BBC News has expanded its use of our solutions and appreciate their long-term usage of LiveU technology," said Samuel Wasserman, LiveU's CEO. "From transmitting live from the Moscow underground and the Great Wall of China to using it close to the North Korean border, we are excited to see the way that the broadcaster has recognised that bonded cellular technology is a key tool for global news content creation and delivery."The technology has been supplied by LiveU's UK distributor Garland Partners Ltd, alongside a full service package.

Payoneer, an industry-leading global payments company, has partnered with Fiverr to deliver payments to 1.6+ million active Fiverr sellers and buyers around the globe.Creative designers, developers, translators, video producers and a variety of talented freelancers from all around the world sell millions of Gigs (services) via Fiverr, starting at $5 and going up to $500, powering the new "Gig Economy." As Fiverr expands its marketplace to help users build and manage sustainable businesses, the Fiverr Revenue Card, powered by Payoneer, offers extensive international service coverage, ease of integration, and immediate release of funds to sellers worldwide."Fiverr's marketplace model is transformative," said Scott Galit, CEO of Payoneer. "Talent is available around the world and Fiverr connects this enormous community of sellers to the buyers that need their services. Payoneer ensures that payout to these individuals is as seamless as the delivery of the services.""We are seeing more of our sellers make their primary income using Fiverr," said Micha Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of Fiverr. "They are buying houses, cars, and settling college loans with the money they're making. Our sellers need a wide range of payment solutions to meet their needs and we're pleased Payoneer is now one of them."About FiverrFiverr helps talented people from all around the world achieve financial independence, letting them monetize their skills. Fiverr is the world's largest marketplace for Gigs (services) currently listing 1.9+ million services in 120 categories across 200+ countries. Fiverr is one of the top 200 websites in the world according to Alexa.com. Fiverr has a team of 70 people with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and angel investors. Visit http://fiverr.com for more information.About PayoneerFounded in 2005, Payoneer is an industry-leading global payments company that accelerates growth for its customers by improving the way they send and receive international payments in more than 200 countries worldwide. Payoneer's complete solution provides a simple, secure, compliant and cost-effective way for companies of all sizes to send and receive payments including prepaid debit cards, deposits to local banks worldwide, international wire transfers, mobile payments, global and local e-wallets and local-currency paper checks. Venture backed and profitable, Payoneer has served thousands of companies and more than one million payees around the world. For more information, visit us at www.payoneer.com.

Kontera, the world's leading content marketing intelligence company, today added a new product to its Content Marketing Platform with the launch of its Content Discovery self-serve offering. The new product answers the burning question for social and content marketers about what specific content they should share or produce to meet the actual interests of their customers. With Kontera's Content Discovery, marketers can now harness the company's Big Data analytics for higher levels of prospect engagement, stronger relationships with current customers and better intelligence for messaging. In addition to Content Discovery, the Content Marketing Platform includes Kontera's Content Insights, Content Amplification and Content Measurement products.
"Marketers are increasingly challenged to 'feed the beast' as they must scale operations to meet demands from Web sites, blogs and social media channels for content that's relevant and meaningful to disparate audience segments," said Rebecca Lieb, industry analyst, The Altimeter Group. "To address the 'what' in content marketing, marketers require data-driven solutions to match the right content with the right audience."
Designed specifically for social marketers, content teams and community managers, Kontera's Content Discovery has been successfully tested by some of the world's largest CPG and technology brands. Starcom MediaVest Group, a Publicis company and digital leader, has been a driving force throughout the past year in bringing Kontera's Content Discovery to market as part of its Link D3 offering for agile and social marketing.
Easy Navigation of the World's Content Graph – Marketers are now able to instantly analyze content trends from across the entire digital landscape, and to see how consumers' content interests relate to their offerings, specific audience segments, and brand owned content. By cross correlating specific audience segments with interests in different content types like articles, blogs, videos, and social posts marketers can discover rising passion points and learn what content interests their customers. With always-on access to this powerful and changing information marketers are now able to create and share more meaningfully content and to operate their social and agile marketing initiatives in with a significantly higher productivity levels.
Big Data Meets Marketing Usability – Kontera's Content Discovery provides an elegant and powerful means of accessing one of the world's largest Big Data infrastructures that analyzes and cross-correlates consumption of more than 550 Terabytes of video, 1.4 billion tweets, 450 million pages, 550 million images, and more than 300 billion phrases. Among the entities tracked are more than 27,000 catalogued interest topics, 8,000 celebrities, and 350,000 products on a daily basis. With Content Discovery, Kontera places this powerful yet highly accessible analysis into the hands of content marketers everywhere.
Fits Common Social and Content Environments – by providing direct publishing to the major social platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn; and the ability to bring Kontera's Intelligence to end-to-end social marketing workflow suites like Salesforce.com, Oracle, and Adobe's Social Marketing Clouds.
"We've worked long and hard to make social and content marketers more effective throughout their workday," said Yoav Shaham, Kontera's CEO. "By leveraging our Big Data platform, marketers can easily see how to connect with their customers' interests, organize all their owned content, and find supporting content from across the digital eco-system to elevate their content game with more meaningful sharing and better content."
Kontera's Content Discovery is now available as a standalone offering on a three tier subscription basis: Basic, Professional and Enterprise, or in conjunction with Kontera's other Content Marketing products such as paid content amplification. To learn more visit: http://www.kontera.com/products/discovery
About Kontera:
Kontera's big data Content Marketing platform understands and activates the world's content. Each day the company's platform cross-correlates more than 2 Billion content items, videos and social posts to deliver marketing insights and to activate brand-supporting content in the most relevant places on-line. Top marketers such as P&G, GM, Kraft and Microsoft rely on Kontera. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, London and Tel Aviv, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Carmel Ventures.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration and project management software, today announced it has been named the silver winner in the Fastest-Growing Company category in Best in Biz Awards 2013 International, an independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.
Fast to deploy and easy-to-use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. This latest acknowledgment falls on the heels of Clarizen winning the 2013 SIIA CODiE for Best Project Management Software. Other recent accolades include being named to the AlwaysOn Global 250 and a leadership position in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services.
More than 150 public and private companies representing all sectors of the economy from more than 25 countries competed in Best in Biz Awards' International's inaugural program. Best in Biz Awards 2013 International honors are conferred in a wide range of categories, including Fastest-Growing Company of the Year, Most Innovative Company of the Year, Best Place to Work, Technology Department of the Year, Executive of the Year, Enterprise Product of the Year, Small/Medium Business Product of the Year, Most Innovative Product of the Year and Film or Video of the Year.
"Being named a fastest-growing private company amongst many of the world's most successful technology organizations is an honor," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO and co-founder of Clarizen. "It reflects our mission to innovate at a furious pace and maintain a laser-focus on helping our customers build high performance teams. This recognition is a true testament to Clarizen's vision of leading the future of work."
Winners of Best in Biz Awards 2013 International were determined based on scoring from a panel of 43 judges drawn from top-tier news, business, finance, and technology publications and media outlets from 18 countries, with all continents represented. This year's judging panel included writers and contributors to such publications as Business Insider (Australia), Canadian Business (Canada), Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), Gizmodo and Lifehacker (Australia), Irish Independent (Ireland), Jerusalem Post (Israel), and Techtalk (United States).
For a full list of gold, silver and bronze winners in Best in Biz Awards 2013 International, visit: http://intl.bestinbizawards.com/intl-2013-winners.
About Best in Biz Awards
Best in Biz Awards recognizes top companies, teams, executives and products for their business success as judged by established members of the press and industry analysts. Best in Biz Awards honors are conferred in three separate programs annually: North America, EMEA, and International. Entries are currently being accepted in the third annual Best in Biz Awards 2013 North American program, until the final entry deadline on September 20, 2013. Any organization from any industry in North America may enter any of the more than 50 company, department or team, executive and product categories. For more information about the International program, visit: http://intl.bestinbizawards.com.
About Clarizen
Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively, and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy-to-use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 75 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.
Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Vertu, the world's leading provider of luxury mobile phones, has today announced a partnership with Red Bend Software, the industry's foremost supplier of Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) updating solutions for the mobile market.
The partnership continues Vertu's policy of using 'best in class' suppliers across every facet of its products, from fine leathers and grade-5 titanium used on the phones exterior casing, to the internal components, software components and services.
Red Bend will manage the end-to-end service, from hosting to delivery of new software updates, via the Red Bend Software Management Center. Red Bend will support Vertu mobile devices across all platforms including the range of Android OS devices such as VERTU Ti, which was launched at the beginning of 2013.
Speaking at their British Headquarters, Vertu's Head of Software, Mal Minhas, said, "Vertu customers expect an exceptional level of service and reliability; by working with Red Bend we can ensure that we are able to deliver product software improvements and a premium user experience continuously, with the easiest, fastest and most trusted FOTA updates."
The Red Bend Software Management Service incorporates vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile®. Red Bend's vRapid Mobile is the industry's leading FOTA software deployed in more than 1.75 billion mobile phones, tablets and other connected devices. Red Bend's vDirect Mobile® is the leading independent device management client that uses OMA DM industry standards.
About Vertu
Vertu aims to deliver the world's best luxury mobile phone experience for its customers by combining expert craftsmanship and peerless materials with innovative technology and unique services. Today, Vertu leads the market that it pioneered over a decade ago.
The Vertu range of mobile phones is made up of three distinct models – Vertu Ti, Signature and Constellation. Vertu mobile phones are handmade in England using the world's finest materials, with each one assembled by a single craftsman.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration and project management software, today announced its continued customer momentum, topping over 2,000 organizations across more than 75 countries worldwide. From the Global 1000 to small businesses, across all industries and sectors, Clarizen's growth reflects the increased demand for efficiency and transparency across company initiatives.
By enabling organizations to transform and empower high-performance teams, Clarizen has added 268 customers since March 2013. Several new Clarizen customers include Mazda, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, AIAG, and Volkswagen.
"We chose Clarizen's comprehensive solutions because of our complex business management needs," said Jef Oltenfreiter, Senior Manager - IS Department, Mazda. "Mazda needed a solution that would grant our users project visibility, as well as the ability to manage knowledge and resources across various departments. The accessibility of Clarizen's cloud-based model, its user-friendly interface, attractive pricing -- and the strong and helpful support team behind the product to answer all your questions and needs in a very short time -- are what drew us to Clarizen. We look forward to seeing the value it will bring to our company."
Clarizen's customer count reflects its growing momentum in the market. Other notable recent highlights include:
•Earning a leadership position in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services.
•Winning the 2013 SIIA CODiE for Best Project Management Software. Recognized for its leadership in delivering intuitive and collaborative solutions that harness the power of the cloud and social engagement to get work done efficiently, effectively, and with better results.
•Launching the Clarizen Success Center, an all-new customer community and support site, providing one central location for community and support needs. The site supports Clarizen's vision to drive first class customer service and enable Clarizen users to engage and learn from each other.
•Introducing a strategic partnership with MuleSoft, delivering packaged integration apps to enable customers to automate business processes across a wide variety of applications, including bug tracking, accounting and CRM systems.
"We are laser-focused on making our customers exceedingly successful," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO and co-founder of Clarizen. "That's why we continually strive to for excellence in service, innovation and leadership -- it's what our customers have grown to expect. We look forward to transforming and empowering even more high-performance teams to generate excellence."
About Clarizen
Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively, and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy-to-use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 75 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.
Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

RealMatch, the leader in performance based recruitment advertising, announced today it has raised $7 million in Series C venture capital financing led by Edison Ventures with participation by existing investor, Carmel Ventures. This round of investments will reinforce RealMatch's mission to make online recruitment advertising a unique and lucrative revenue stream for online publishers, an efficient and results-driven process for employers, and a simplified, easy-to-use experience for job seekers.
RealMatch is disrupting the highly fragmented online recruitment industry by building the largest and most effective recruitment advertising network that now reaches over 100 million active and passive job seekers monthly across thousands of job sites and social networks. RealMatch's performance-based network is able to achieve up to 4 times more qualified response to job postings compared to the leading national job boards. This uplift in performance is attributable to the company's proprietary technology including Real-Time Job Matchingג„¢, automated network optimization, and ad targeting capabilities which are fully integrated with the network and with RealMatch's white-label job board platform.
"RealMatch's potential in the online recruitment advertising industry is almost limitless. Our job matching and network optimization technologies are representative of the next technological revolution in the online recruitment space. This round of funding will help us as we accelerate our market leadership" says Gal Almog, CEO of RealMatch.
David Nevas, Principal, who led the investment on behalf of Edison Ventures noted, "By reducing inefficiencies in the recruitment advertising market through its matching and distribution technologies, RealMatch has been able to drive a true win-win-win solution by improving the job search process for candidates, increasing monetization for publishers, and offering more targeted and effective solutions for advertisers." The company is rapidly growing the network through partnerships it has established with leading digital publishers, media companies, and stand-alone job boards who turn to RealMatch to power their job boards and job distribution. The superior white-label solution allows RealMatch partners to better monetize their audience with recruitment advertising while offering employers and job seekers a more efficient way to connectג€”within their community and across the Internet.
"RealMatch brings a disruptive solution to the robust market of online recruitment that is estimated to be worth over $7 billion annually," added Ronen Nir, General Partner, Carmel Ventures. "We are committed to continuing our support of RealMatch, and are excited to be joined by Edison Ventures, which brings significant added value to the company."
In response to how the company intends to use the funds, Ezra Sofer, Chief Financial Officer at RealMatch added, "We are experiencing a strong demand for our products and unparalleled offering. We will use the proceeds to continue our growth in all fields of operations, including investment in research and development, sales and marketing to develop new products, increase our positioning in the market place and gain market share through new customer acquisition."
About RealMatch
RealMatch is revolutionizing the online recruitment industry by building the largest and most effective recruitment advertising network designed to connect employers and job seekers much more efficiently, while helping digital publishers increase revenue and site traffic with online recruitment. RealMatch's white-label solution for digital publishers includes a highly-advanced job site platform, proprietary job matching technology, and performance-based distribution campaigns across its network of thousands of job sites that reaches over 100 million active and passive job seekers monthly. RealMatch's solution ensures that digital publishers and media companies outperform their competitors on all fronts and earn more with recruitment advertising. Find out more at http://www.realmatch.com.
About Edison Ventures
Established in 1986, Edison partners with entrepreneurs, service providers and other financing sources to build successful companies. Edison provides capital and value-added services to late stage ($5 to 20 million revenue), information technology businesses. Initial investments range from $5 to 10 million. Edison typically serves as sole or lead investor. In addition to providing expansion capital, Edison funds management buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts and secondary stock purchases.
Edison's investment professionals are based in Lawrenceville, NJ, New York, NY, McLean, VA, Needham, MA, and Cleveland, OH. Industry specialties include Financial Technology, Healthcare IT, Interactive Marketing and eCommerce and Enterprise 2.0. Edison's successes include Best Software, Cambridgesoft, Dendrite, Gain Capital, Liberty Tax, M5, Magnetic, Marcam, Mathsoft, MediaBrix, Neat, NetProspex, Octagon, PlumChoice, Tangoe, Virtual Edge, Visual Networks, Vocus and many other information technology leaders, which have a combined market value exceeding $5 billion. Edison Ventures currently manages over $700 million and actively making new investments. For more information on Edison Ventures, please visit www.edisonventures.com and follow us on Twitter @edisonventure.

eXelate, the smart data company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions, announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. eXelate's smart data platform provides accurate, actionable, and agile data and analytics on online household demographics, purchase intent, and behavioral propensities.
eXelate and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn's 11th annual Silicon Valley Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on July 23rd and 24th. This two-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political, and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. Innovation Summit's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.
"This year's AlwaysOn Global 250 is seeing an unprecedented shift from desktop to mobile. Concurrently, innovators in the cloud are making it possible for an entirely new generation of application and software solutions to enter the technology marketplace. The enterprise world has endured a long ramp-up to the cloud as well as finally accepting that mobile is here to stay. Now, businesses are demanding even more robust, secure applications with which to run their operations — anytime, anywhere," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "The Global Silicon Valley is rising to this challenge with unfettered enthusiasm, providing business management solutions, IT infrastructure, and elegant, stable applications. Coupled with bleeding-edge consumer adoption of the latest and most powerful media applications, the companies on this year's AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the highest-growth opportunities in today's private company marketplace."
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2013 list.
eXelate makes online, offline and custom modeled data sets actionable across 500M online consumers worldwide. eXelate's proprietary maX dataTM- customized audiences built for advertisers based on first and third party data – delivers 3-5x better campaign performance as compared to conventional targeting.
"eXelate is thrilled to be included as an AlwaysOn OnGlobal Top 250 company," said Mark Zagorski, CEO of eXelate. "This award recognizes our commitment to powering accurate, agile and actionable data for digital marketing decisions worldwide for marketers, agencies, platforms, publishers and data providers. It is an honor to be recognized for our technological advances that influence game-changing marketing endeavors."
About eXelate
eXelate is the smart data company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions worldwide for marketers, agencies, platforms, publishers and data providers. eXelate's smart data platform provides accurate, actionable, and agile data and analytics on online household demographics, purchase intent, and behavioral propensities. Through the collection of trillions of directly measured online data points and distribution partnerships with information leaders such as Nielsen, Nielsen Catalina, MasterCard Advisors, Bizo, and more, eXelate makes online, offline, and custom modeled data sets actionable across 700M online consumers worldwide. As members of the NAI, IAB, trustE, Council for Accountable Advertising, and Evidon's Open Data Partnership, eXelate is a leader in privacy compliant advertising practices. For more information, please visit http://www.exelate.com or follow @eXelate.

Associated Press (AP) has expanded a deal with mobile video specialists LiveU to improve its global broadcast reach using the company's live streaming technology.
The deal will enable AP to increase its coverage of global stories by equipping reporters with the technology, which includes a backpack uplink unit with full HD capabilities, a smaller unit which can be clipped to a belt and technology which can convert a laptop into a live video transmission unit.
Reporters from across the world can stream the video directly back to AP's London production hub. The move follows AP's recent stake in Swedish live stream technology startup Bambuser.
Director of global video at AP, Sandy MacIntyre, said: "Live coverage has been a priority for AP since we first launched a service for broadcasters back in 2003.
"Now we have more than 200 TV stations and digital publishers who quite rightly expect us to ensure that, regardless of where news breaks, we are delivering live content within minutes."
AP used LiveU technology recently during its coverage of Nelson Mandela's health, stationing equipment both outside his home and at Pretoria hospital.
Read more at http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/07/15/ap-expands-global-live-stream-broadcast-coverage-extended-liveu-technology-deal#7GhYhtix2pXuv8st.99

OpTier, a pioneer in analytics-driven, SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and transaction-based Big Data Analytics, announced today financial results from its 2013 fiscal second quarter which saw the company net a year-over-year growth rate of more than 400%.
The company's aggressive growth is attributed to increased customer demand for simple-to-use, fast-to-deploy application monitoring that transcends silos and provides end-to-end application visibility. Earlier this year the company launched OpTier SaaS, a cloud-based version of its award-winning APM solution, which has resulted in increased market awareness and amplified customer demand.
Mounting demand from several small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) has even convinced the company to offer its cloud-based application monitoring solution free of charge, with up to 3 agents or 15GB of storage, for businesses seeking to benefit from real-time application visibility and instantaneous troubleshooting capabilities.
OpTier's transaction-centric approach to application monitoring has been a cornerstone of the company since its inception and a flagship differentiator for its cloud-based solution. OpTier SaaS utilizes end-to-end transaction tracing to deliver powerful capabilities that include two-click problem resolution, advanced end-user experience analytics, and proactive application optimization.
The solutions' ease-of-use and instant time-to-value has helped drive high adoption rates. "The installation of OpTier SaaS was so easy," says David Stewart, Application Support Manager, Globus Family of Brands. "All I had to do was access the appropriate server & download the agent. OpTier SaaS auto-detected the transactions for me... I didn't even need to involve an admin."
"The reception to OpTier SaaS has been overwhelmingly positive and has allowed us to accelerate growth and easily surpass revenue projections for the quarter," said Andrew Wild, president of OpTier. "Our customers are raving about the solutions' ability to proactively monitor production applications and convert real-time application visibility into tangible business value."
To learn more about OpTier SaaS and register for a free trial, visit https://start.optier.com/web/register.
About OpTier
OpTier, headquartered in New York, is a pioneer in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) space. OpTier offers a simple and cloud-based APM solution that empowers application owners, quality assurance (QA) professionals, DevOps teams, and IT operations managers to proactively detect and resolve application problems before they affect the business and customers. OpTier works with enterprises such as Aflac, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, O2 and Wells Fargo -- to help convert application intelligence into tangible business value. To learn more about OpTier, visit www.optier.com.

Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration and project management software, today announced it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as a 2013 AlwaysOn Global 250 winner. Inclusion in the distinguished list signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley.
"Being selected as one of the most promising private companies in the B2B Applications - SaaS and Enterprise sector is a true testament to Clarizen's vision of leading the future of work," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO and co-founder of Clarizen. "Our enterprise work collaboration solutions are redefining how companies run their businesses by unleashing enhanced productivity and profitability and bringing processes and conversations together in a single place."
"This year's AlwaysOn Global 250 represents the highest-growth opportunities in today's private company marketplace," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "Today, businesses are demanding even more robust, secure applications with which to run their operations -- anytime, anywhere. The Global Silicon Valley is rising to this challenge with unfettered enthusiasm, providing business management solutions, IT infrastructure and elegant, stable applications."
In addition to the AlwaysOn Global 250, other recent Clarizen accolades include winning the 2013 SIIA CODiE for Best Project Management Software and earning a leadership position in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services.
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process based on five criteria: Innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Clarizen will be honored at AlwaysOn's 11th annual Innovation Summit at the Computer History Museum on July 23rd, 2013.
About Clarizen Clarizen is the leader in enterprise-class work collaboration and project management solutions that harness the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively, and with better results. Fast to deploy and easy-to-use, Clarizen is redefining enterprise collaboration by connecting social context with tasks and projects to drive increased productivity and profitability. Clarizen fuels the high-performance teams of more than 2,000 organizations across 76 countries, including more than 25 of the Fortune 500. In 2013, Clarizen received the SIIA CODiE Award for "Best Product Management Solution." Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more information, visit www.clarizen.com.
Clarizen is a registered trademark and the Clarizen logo is a trademark of Clarizen Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand connecting and informing the entrepreneurial community in the Global Silicon Valley. Founded by Red Herring founding editor, Tony Perkins in 2003, AlwaysOn's mission is to continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, bloggers, and advertisers like no other media brand.

Payoneer, an industry-leading global payments company, has established itself as the premier provider of payment services for the freelancer sector in Latin America. The company has extended its leadership position with the recent addition of three of the continent's largest freelance marketplaces ג€“Adtriboo, Nubelo and Workana. These marketplaces connect Latin American content and blog writers, web and graphic designers, App developers, computer programmers, translators and more, to companies all over the world.
Payoneer provides payments to tens of thousands of freelance workers through its flexible, multi-currency payout solutions. Rather than hassling with multiple payment methods to various countries, Payoneer provides companies with a "one stop" global payment solution, including services such as prepaid debit cards, global bank transfers, global and local eWallets, and international checks. With upward growth trends in the freelance worker community, easy global payment solutions are more in demand than ever. According to a recent Economist story published June 1, the startup economy is expected to create $5 Billion in freelance payments per year by 2018.
"As we connect the best freelance Latin American talent with employers and projects that need them in the US and elsewhere around the globe, Payoneer dramatically decreases the complexity for us to pay our remote talent throughout the region," said Tomֳ¡s O'Farrell, Co-Founder of Workana. "I know that once a project is done, payment will happen quickly and with minimal hassle for the payer or payee, no matter the size of the project or the location of the freelancer."
Payoneer's multiple payment options and years of experience making payments in more than 200 countries means its Latin American partners have a simple and flexible way of delivering payments to any freelancer in any region, regardless of currency. In addition, Payoneer provides payees with multi-lingual customer support in 35 languages worldwide, including full support in Spanish and Portuguese. The full-service customer support team can be contacted via phone, email or live chat. The active forum allows users and customer service to support consumer questions.
Scott Galit, Payoneer CEO says, "Payoneer is committed to powering the freelance marketplaces and empowering freelance workers all over the world to participate in the global economy. We've been focused on better supporting the Latin American region and are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with terrific partners like Adtriboo, Nubelo and Workana to help us simplify life and save money for freelancers in the region."
About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is an industry-leading global payments company that accelerates growth for its customers by improving the way they make payments to more than 200 countries worldwide. Payoneer's complete solution provides a simple, secure, compliant and cost-effective way for companies of all sizes to offer superior and cost-saving payments options including prepaid debit cards, deposits to local banks worldwide, international wire transfers, mobile payments, global and local e-wallets and local-currency paper checks. Venture backed and profitable, Payoneer has served thousands of companies and more than one million payees around the world. For more information, visit us at www.payoneer.com.

Skybox Security, the leading provider of risk analytics for cyber security, today announced results that show customers using Skybox Risk Control for vulnerability management can complete vulnerability discovery, analysis, and remediation tasks in a large enterprise environment in a single work day, and complete vulnerability discovery at least 50 times faster compared to traditional vulnerability assessment with an active scanner. Results came from analysis of customer deployments and customer lab tests.
The Skybox vulnerability management solution, based on Skybox Risk Control, continuously monitors the attack surface and critical vectors, feeding vulnerability data into automated risk-based prioritization and remediation. This allows security teams to remediate critical vulnerabilities immediately, sealing off vulnerabilities that could lead to intrusion or data breach.
Through 2015, Gartner expects 80 percent of successful attacks will exploit well-known vulnerabilities and be detectable via security monitoring, according to the August 30, 2012 report Adapting Vulnerability Management to Advanced Threats. "The goal should be 'continuous assessment' -- this process should not be thought of as a yearly audit."
Enterprises and government agencies using the Skybox vulnerability management solution report breakthrough results -- setting new standards and establishing high benchmarks for completeness, speed, and accuracy of their vulnerability management process:
- Achievement of nearly 100 percent reporting accuracy every day, with no disruption
- Reduction of vulnerability false positives to near zero levels
- Detection of 100,000 vulnerabilities within hours of deploying the Skybox vulnerability management solution
- Effective reduction of risk for the first time
- Metrics and dashboards providing security teams the information they need to justify additional security resources Additionally, Skybox lab testing has validated that the vulnerability management solution provides:
- Vulnerability assessment at speeds of 12,000 hosts per hour, compared to 250 hosts/hour rate typical with a traditional active scanner
- Vulnerability intelligence covering 90 percent of the network in less than one day, compared to traditional vulnerability management processes that take 30-90 days to cover 50 percent of the network
- Risk-based vulnerability analytics that reduce vulnerability data by 99 percent and deliver actionable remediation options to patch or shield vulnerabilities
- Compliance with the internal scanning requirements for PCI DSS 6.2, which requires identification, risk ranking, and timely remediation of all 'high' ranked vulnerabilities Traditional vulnerability management is dependent on active scanners for vulnerability discovery, which can cause significant disruption to internal networks. In a large network with thousands of hosts, scans generate tens or hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities, presenting security analysts with an impossible prioritization task and elongating the vulnerability window of exposure by many weeks.
"This leaves organizations with a tough trade-off between the management headaches of vulnerability scanning and analysis, versus potential cyber-attacks inflicted by APTs, malware, cyber criminals, and other sorts of threats," said Gidi Cohen, CEO at Skybox Security. "Security teams compensate by adopting 'round robin' scanning and analysis of a small portion of the network each week. Skybox offers the first solution that ensures a complete and up-to-date picture of the fast-changing attack surface -- raising the bar against attacks, every day."
The Skybox vulnerability management solution is available in Risk Control 6.5. To learn more please visit www.skyboxsecurity.com or www.skyboxsecurity.com/riskcontrol
About Skybox Security, Inc.
Skybox Security, Inc. provides the most powerful risk analytics for cyber security, giving security management and operations the tools they need to eliminate attack vectors and safeguard business data and services. Skybox solutions provide a context-aware view of the network and risks that drives effective vulnerability and threat management, firewall management, and continuous compliance monitoring. Organizations in Financial Services, Government, Energy, Defense, Retail, and Telecommunications rely on Skybox Security every day for automated, integrated security management solutions that lower risk exposure and optimize security management processes. For more information visit: www.skyboxsecurity.com.

Perfecto Mobile, provider of The MobileCloud Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced the availability of its new cloud-based, mobile web and native application monitoring product - MobileCloud Monitoring(TM). This new solution is the first to reveal a complete view of mobile end-user experience using out-of-the-box smartphones, phablets and tablets operating on local carrier networks, enabling enterprises to proactively and continuously monitor business-critical transactions in real-world conditions.
This new offering completes Perfecto Mobile's integrated SaaS product suite by addressing mobile application quality throughout the application lifecycle, from development through functional and performance testing, to production. MobileCloud Monitoring captures the impact of the "last mile" on the user experience by leveraging real devices running on various OS versions and operating on local cellular and Wi-Fi networks deployed worldwide to accurately measure response time across different platforms and networks during working hours, peak hours, weekends and holidays. The solution issues real-time alerts when a service is down or performance (i.e., response time) declines, dramatically reducing mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
"With mobility driving an increasingly significant part of their business, enterprises are seeking solutions to help them navigate an extremely dynamic and fragmented mobile market," said Eran Yaniv, CEO, Perfecto Mobile. "Our solution is equipped to test on real devices in real conditions, providing enterprises with the necessary visibility and insight to serve their end-users with confidence on any mobile platform, network or location."
As an application moves throughout the testing lifecycle, it becomes increasingly important to have a solution that fits an enterprise's existing monitoring tools and workflows to seamlessly measure and manage mobile service delivery. With MobileCloud Monitoring, enterprises can leverage their existing software investments in order to mitigate risks and go to market even faster.
Perfecto Mobile's MobileCloud Monitoring allows users to:
-- Capture the complete end-user experience by continuously monitoring specific user engagement scenarios on real smartphones, phablets and tablets in local markets.
-- Receive real-time alerts for device or network-specific performance and availability incidents.
-- Share actionable insight across distributed operations, test and development teams.
-- Focus attention on genuine real-time incidents by minimizing false positives with advanced technologies enabling device redundancy, retry mechanisms, etc.
-- Extend existing monitoring tools and workflows to mobile leveraging current investments.
For more information on MobileCloud Monitoring, please register for the following webinar: Introduction to MobileCloud Monitoring - Real Device Monitoring in the Cloud on June 26, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. ET or visit: http://www.perfectomobile.com/portal/cms/services/monitoring.html.
About Perfecto Mobile
Perfecto Mobile is transforming the way enterprise organizations go mobile, enabling them to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services and go-to-market with confidence. Perfecto Mobile's cloud-based MobileCloud(TM) Platform and end-to-end mobile quality product suite enables users to remotely access a large selection of real mobile devices connected to local cellular networks around the world and leverage them throughout the mobile application delivery lifecycle - from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. The MobileCloud(TM) is available either in an enterprise private cloud or a sharable public cloud environment.
More than 700 customers, including the top Fortune 100/500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to optimize mobile time-to-market, customer engagement, risk mitigation and costs and continuously serve their mobile users with confidence.

Personetics, a leading provider of predictive interaction solutions for the banking industry, today announced that it has completed its series B funding of $11.5 million. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the second round of funding joined by Personetics' existing investors Sequoia Capital and Carmel Ventures. This investment will be used to drive sales and scale operations to meet the growing demand for predictive solutions that transform the digital experience for banking customers. Following the series B funding, Yoni Cheifetz, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, will join the Personetics board.
"This round of funding is a significant milestone for Personetics that confirms the huge value and potential of our offering, and our ability to deliver our solutions across the financial services industry," said David Sosna, CEO of Personetics. "Personalizing the customer experience is a key initiative for banks as they look for ways to fully realize the benefits digital channels provide."
Personetics' predictive banking solutions are transforming the way digital channels are being used ג€“ delivering highly-personalized, timely and relevant experiences to the consumer. Its breakthrough technology leverages customer data and crowd sourcing analytics to create a real-time, robust customer view that can accurately predict customer intent and offer personalized services and recommendations.
"We are confident the addition of a top-tier firm such as Lightspeed to our already strong list of backers will allow us to capitalize on our early successes and help us become the largest provider of predictive interaction technology to the financial services industry," added Sosna.
Cheifetz said, "We engaged with Personetics and its existing investors because we were impressed with their technology, the high level of expertise the Personetics' management team brings to the table, and their ability to deliver a solution to the financial sector that provides immediate value to their customers while reducing customer services costs."
About Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm with over $2 billion of committed capital under management and investment professionals and advisors in Silicon Valley, India, Israel and China with Lightspeed China Partners. Over the past two decades, Lightspeed partners have backed more than 200 consumer, enterprise and cleantech companies, many of which have become leaders in their respective markets, including Blue Nile, Brocade, Ciena, DoubleClick, eHealth, Flixster, Fusion-io, Informatica, Kosmix, LivingSocial, Lucky Pai, Nicira, Playdom, Pliant Technology, Provigent, Riverbed Technology, Solazyme, TutorVista, Virsa Systems, Waveset, and XtremIO. http://lsvp.com
About Personetics
Personetics offers a predictive interaction solution designed specifically for the financial services industry. The company is dedicated to helping all types of financial institutions deliver a more personalized customer experience across all service channels, especially online, mobile and tablet. The solution comes pre-loaded with a comprehensive library of banking-specific predictions and solutions and leverages a real-time analytics engine to accurately predict customer intent. Personetics gives financial institutions the power to convert passive digital adopters into active digital users while improving their overall customer experience and reducing operational costs for the institution.
Personetics is backed by Carmel Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Capital and is headquartered in New York with offices in Tokyo and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit http://www.personetics.com/.

Outbrain, which now owns real-time data platform Visual Revenue, today announced the impending launch of a new personalisation product, to help news sites deliver stories most relevant to the audience.
The new product is currently being tested in beta with more than 10 publishers with plans for a public launch later in the year.
The idea is to enable editors to signal a series of stories for use, which the technology can then select a certain number from based on the appetite of the audience arriving on the webpage.
The key feature is the editorial involvement in the process.
"We think we can actually incorporate the editors into the conversation," former chief executive of Visual Revenue Dennis Mortensen told Journalism.co.uk, by giving editors the ability to personalise using "a framework which [they] have control of".
For example, in cases where there are certain stories in the selection which the editor wants to feature in a carousel, for example, no matter what, then they can use the personalisation product to "give me instructions on how I'm allowed to personalise".
"So you can actually inject editorial instructions into personalisation," Mortensen said. "So all of a sudden they become perhaps more of a personalisation maestro than really just an editor who surrendered to personalisation and said 'oh, I'm not a participant anymore'."
Visual Revenue delivers "recommendations" to newsrooms based on real-time data, to help them make more effective editorial decisions.
The technology aims to "try to empower the editor", chief executive of Visual Revenue Dennis Mortensen said at the Global Editors Network in Paris today.

LiveU has partnered with SnappyTV to offer a streamlined solution for posting clips during live events.
The New York Giants are using the solution to post real-time video clips from team events.
"With LiveU and SnappyTV, we no longer have to wait for practice or drills to be over to instantly post and share video highlights with fans ג€“ giving them the real-time visual updates they want most," said Don Sperling, vice president and executive producer for the New York Football Giants. "For training camp later this summer, we can build a daily audience who will get video tweets close to real time. It's a simple process and anyone can easily clip highlights from it, which are then shared across our social and online footprint automatically. This tremendously shortens our video posting time, and allows us consistently to be first."
Audience patterns for video viewing and sharing have shifted to social networks and mobile devices, driving a clear need for media companies to quickly edit and publish video clips and highlight reels to these new audiences.
Current SnappyTV users include the NBA, Pac-12 Networks, Fox Sports, MTV, Tennis Channel, NCAA, PBS News Hour and TechCrunch.

OpTier, the leader in analytics-driven, SaaS-based Application Performance Management (APM) and end-to-end Big Data Analytics, announced today strong results from the April 30th launch of its cloud-based Application Performance Management (APM) and IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) solution, "OpTier SaaS."
In just one month, the company has been able to secure more than 100 enterprise-level customers, a majority of which are fully active, for the cloud-based version of its award-winning on-premise APM and ITOA solution.
As a result of escalating demand from several smaller businesses, the company has decided to offer OpTier SaaS free for life, with up to 3 agents or 15GB of storage, for small and mid-sized businesses seeking to benefit from amplified and real-time application visibility.
OpTier's transaction-centric approach to APM has been a cornerstone of the company since its inception and a flagship differentiator for its cloud-based solution. OpTier SaaS utilizes end-to-end transaction tracing to deliver powerful APM capabilities that include two-click problem identification and resolution. In addition to providing advanced end-user experience analytics, OpTier SaaS delivers ITOA capabilities that empower IT teams to become more proactive and strategic when managing key operations functions.
The company has already received glowing feedback from customers on the robust, yet easy-to-use, solution. "Plugging in OpTier SaaS into our systems was a quick and painless process, and the benefits were realized almost immediately," said David Parks, Senior Manager of Application Development for C Spire Wireless. "Within minutes we were able to clearly identify system performance bottlenecks that had eluded us for weeks.
"We're incredibly encouraged, but not surprised, by the high adoption rates OpTier SaaS has achieved in its first month, said Andrew Wild, president of OpTier. "Working closely with our enterprise customers, we've been able to combine our APM expertise with the ease and simplicity that today's competitive software market demands. Equally as important, we have dramatically accelerated the time-to-value of OpTier SaaS so customers benefit from real-time application visibility in a matter of minutes."
To learn more about "OpTier SaaS" and register for a free trial, visit https://start.optier.com/web/register.
OpTier, headquartered in New York, is the leader in APM and Big Data Analytics, analyzing billions of business transactions per day. With transactions in its DNA, OpTier has given the market an award-winning Application Performance Management solution, an industry-leading Big Data Analytics platform, and creates contextual big data that drives transformational initiatives like business impact analysis, CIO prioritization, data center consolidation and virtual and cloud migrations. This actionable intelligence provides global 1000 customers such as Deutsche Bank, Frontier Communications, Morgan Stanley and O2, insights that drive business growth, operational productivity and customer satisfaction.

Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 1.75 billion Red Bend-Enabledג„¢ devices, today announced it will present manufacturer opportunities for software application management revenue on Sunday, June 2 at 3 p.m. (IL) at M2M: Machine to Machine Communication Conference at Daniel Hotel in Herzliya, Israel.
"OTA (Over-the-Air) Technology: From Managing M2M Devices to Managing M2M Services"
.
As mobile devices increasingly are differentiated by their applications, customers are demanding that manufacturers maintain and update devices throughout their lifecycles. Roger Ordman, Red Bend's Director of Product Marketing, will discuss the opportunities software management as a service presents for device manufacturers to offer revenue generating services for their enterprise customers during a session titled, "OTA (Over-the-Air) Technology: From Managing M2M Devices to Managing M2M Services."
M2M is positioned to be one of the fastest-growing business technology sectors over the next decade. M2M 2013 Conference will provide insight into the demand for M2M services, the market's growth factors and its impact on wireless networks and telecommunications software.
Details:
What:
M2M: Machine to Machine Communication Conference
"OTA (Over-the-Air) Technology: From Managing M2M Devices to Managing M2M Services"
When:
Sunday, June 2, 3-3:30 p.m. (IL)
Where:
Daniel Hotel, Herzliya, Israel
Who:
Roger Ordman, Director Product Marketing for Red Bend Software
Contact:
http://www.redbend.com/contact/contact-us
Connect with Red Bend on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
About Red Bend Software
Red Bendֲ® Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM) with more than 1.75 billion Red Bend-Enabledג„¢ devices, makes mobile devices and services continuously better in a rapidly changing world. Red Bend is the only company that provides standards-based products and solutions for software management, device management and mobile virtualization that work on any mobile phone and connected device uniformly, efficiently and securely over the air. Red Bend enables its customers to stay competitive in a fast-moving market by helping them deliver high-value services on an increasing number of connected devices with growing software complexity. More than 80 leading device manufacturers, mobile operators, semiconductor vendors and automotive companies worldwide trust Red Bend with their most important assets ג€” the mobile and connected devices their consumers depend on.

Payoneer, an industry-leading global payments company, is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary Payoneer EU has secured an Electronic Money license in Europe, solidifying Payoneer's position as a leading global provider of compliant international payment solutions. In addition, Payoneer has expanded its management team to support the company's rapid global growth.
Payoneer EU recently received an E-money license that was passported across all of the member states of the European Union (EU) and was granted a license to be a member issuer of MasterCardֲ®, allowing the company to issue MasterCardֲ® branded cards.
Payoneer has also significantly expanded its capacity to drive future growth by adding experienced talent to its management team. Oded Zehavi has joined as Chief Revenue Officer. Zehavi is responsible for leading Payoneer's sales, marketing and product activities globally. He previously served as the business development director for PayPal, where among other responsibilities he led the inception of the PayPal services in the Middle East and Africa, and overall business growth within the region. He also previously held leadership roles at several technology, banking and software companies, focusing on sales and customer relations.
Howard Gibbs has joined Payoneer as the Managing Director of Payoneer EU. Howard brings substantial experience in financial services with past leadership roles at MBNA, and other card and payments companies.
"We are committed to the vision of a world in which cross-border payment is simple, low cost and compliant - and as frictionless as electronic commerce," said Payoneer CEO Scott Galit. "Payoneer's opening of a new EU office, significant investment in regulatory infrastructure and the addition of Oded and Howard to our management team will help us deliver on that commitment for our partners and customers around the world."
About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is an industry-leading global payments company that accelerates growth for its customers by improving the way they send and receive international payments in more than 200 countries worldwide. Payoneer's complete solution provides a simple, secure, compliant and cost-effective way for companies of all sizes to send and receive payments including prepaid debit cards, deposits to local banks worldwide, international wire transfers, mobile payments, global and local e-wallets and local-currency paper checks. Venture backed and profitable, Payoneer has served thousands of companies and more than one million payees around the world. For more information, visit us at www.payoneer.com.

LiveU, the leader in portable live video-over-cellular solutions, has announced that VG, Norway's leading newspaper, news website and now online video news site, has been able to successfully expand its live video content use via the deployment of LiveU's cellular uplinking technology.
VG has long recognised the need to expand its brand and readership online and live video was identified as a very important part of that strategy. The newspaper group is using both multiple LU60s (backpack technology) as well as LiveU's new mobile app solution LU-Smart. This app allows customers to extend their live video coverage from the field using an iPhone or iPad. Based on LiveU's fourth-generation bonded uplink technology, the LU-Smart bonds internal Wi-Fi and cellular connections, including 3G/4G LTE, to reach optimal video quality.
Pֳ¥l Hansen, Technical Manager with VG TV, says, "LiveU allows us to go live from the field almost anywhere in an affordable way without the need for a satellite truck. With LU-Smart, we can view and play with live content in new and exciting ways. We use the LiveU technology for both live content and the playback of "as-live" clips via store and forward to the control room. We are very happy with the LiveU technology and the support from their partner Avit Systems."
VG used two LU60 units as well as the iPhone technology at the recent World Skiing Championships in Italy. Feeds from press conferences and interviews with Norwegian skiers were transmitted back to the control room in Oslo then on to the website. The newspaper uses 3G, 4G, WiFi and LAN, to ensure optimum performance. The LU60 units are normally connected to a Panasonic HPX-250 camera, with off-the-shelf servers running LiveU's LU1000 software that then feed a video router. VG has also installed an Ubuntu server for the live iPhone feeds.
Zion Eilam, LiveU's Key Account Executive, says, "We are very excited to see one of the first uses of our new LU-Smart technology and that works in conjunction with our market-leading backpack solutions. VG is a prime example of how live video online can drive readership and enhance the amount of time people spend on the site. It allows exciting live footage from across the region."

Clarizen, the leading work collaboration cloud company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services.
According to the report, "Demand for IT PPM offered as cloud-optimized or cloud-native services continues to climb, because they provide rapid time to value, and also limit financial commitments to one-year increments."
Project managers and organizations need real-time visibility and clarity, enabling them to make decisions based on data, not guesswork. Clarizen's intuitive and collaborative work and project management solutions harness the power of the cloud and social engagement to get work done efficiently, effectively, and with better results. Clarizen's work collaboration cloud software is also designed to deliver results quickly and encourage user adoption through an easy-to-use, intuitive interface. As a result, teams have software that works like they do, and provides them with the information they need to complete projects faster.
"Clarizen's mission is to lead the future of work," said Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO at Clarizen. "Because we constantly innovate to stay ahead of the needs of our customers, we've seen dramatic company growth. Our clients want to associate themselves with a visionary organization that's focused on their success -- now and in the future."
About Clarizen Clarizen is the enterprise-class leader in work and project management that harnesses the power of the cloud to get work done efficiently, effectively, and with better results. Designed to be implemented quickly and easy to use, Clarizen helps companies build high performance teams and empowers social collaboration to drive results. Founded in 2005, Clarizen is privately held with offices in San Mateo, California and Hod Hasharon, Israel. For more i